The latest work from the English blues guitar player Mick Clark can be heard on his recently released album ‘Solid Ground’. No more or less than a straight forward blues album. Although you can hear through Mick’s guitar playing and arrangements that he has been around for a lot of years, the whole thing doesn’t sound to convincing. Maybe that’s because we are overwhelmed with a lot of young blues guitar players these days and most of them have a higher standard. Nevertheless, this album sounds great and is well arranged, but from somebody who has been around since the late sixties with his band Killing Floor (the same time that Led Zepplin and the Free where formed) one might expect a little bit more. On the other hand, this is Mick Clark. A man who delivers the same quality on stage as well as on his albums. What you hear is what you get. ‘Solid Ground’ contains thirteen tracks and varies from blues to rock with a couple of highlights in the blues-rock department like ‘Graveyard Shift’, ‘So Cool’ and the title track ‘Solid Ground’. He picks up his acoustic guitar for ‘Horse Bolt Stomp’ an instrumental and ‘Haphazard Man’. Mick, who wrote all the tracks himself plays all the guitar and is responsible for all the vocals, is accompanied by Dave Lennox on keys, ‘Dangerous’ Dave Newman on harp, Chris Sharley on drums and Eddy Masters on bass.