Beckology | ||||
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Box set by Jeff Beck | ||||
Released | 19 November 1991 | |||
Recorded | 1963–1989 | |||
Genre | Rock, blues | |||
Length | 223:48 | |||
Label | Epic / Legacy | |||
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Allmusic |
Beckology by guitarist Jeff Beck was released in 1991 as a 3 CD career retrospective. Beckology covers the work of a guitarist widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and gifted exponents of the electric guitar, from early days with The Tridents through to his Guitar Shop album in 1989.
A 60-page booklet comes with the album, and includes a biography by Gene Santoro.
Allmusic gave an enthusiastically positive review of the set, asserting that the mastering quality is far superior to any previous release while applauding the selection of material: "to survey Jeff Beck's entire career […] would be a hopeless task, given the amount of anonymous session work that the guitarist did circa 1964–1966, but Beckology still manages to touch a few unexpected bases, even as it strings together all of the obvious and most of the important sides in Beck's output."