Leslie West isn’t a particularly innovative guitarist, and his style and approach have barely moved an eyelash since he first broke into the public consciousness with Mountain back in the early '70s, but he gets a tone heavier than plutonium on his Les Paul, and when he sings, it’s a gear-shredding roar that would make John Kay proud. All of this is still very much in evidence on his newest album, Unusual Suspects, which finds him squaring off with several guest guitarists, including Billy Gibbons, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Joe Bonamassa, and Steve Lukather. Naturally, there are guitar lines aplenty here, which is what one expects from a Leslie West outing, but this set also has the autumn-like feel of summation, with West looking back on years of gigs and guitar slinging in autobiographical songs like “To the Moon” and “My Gravity,” both West originals (Jon Tiven was a co-writer on “My Gravity”), and a moving cover of Willie Nelson's “The Party’s Over.” West lost a leg to type 2 diabetes in June, and while that hasn’t slowed him down one bit on Unusual Suspects, it no doubt prompted him to look back at his life and times with an unfiltered eye. — All Music Guide

Track Listing
One More Drink for the Road (feat. Steve Lukather)
Mud Flap Momma (feat. Slash)
To The Moon
Standing On a Higher Ground (feat. Billy Gibbons)
Third Degree (feat. Joe Bonamassa)
Legend
Nothing's Changed (feat. Zakk Wylde)
I Feel Fine
Love You Forever
My Gravity
The Party's Over (feat. Slash & Zakk Wylde)
I Don't Know 'The Beetlejuice Song' (feat. Richard Christy & Lester 'Beettle' Green)