Four years in the making, this intends to be the first of many releases from a charity project called Allan’s Legacy. The idea is to plough money from sales into a guitar festival and competition in spring of next year. The driving force appears to be Italian based guitarist Enrico Pinna, probably best known in the UK for his former presence in the Welsh prog band Karnataka. Pallagrosi likewise plays with Karnataka. Big names are rolled out to endorse the project, notably Stern, Wertico and Etheridge, and Taylor played regularly with Holdsworth toward the end of his career.

The title is a play on The 16 Men of Tain, a late period and satisfying Holdsworth release, the last from the intimate surroundings of his home studio which doubled up as a home brewery. Ironically the album is one of his more restrained, the rock element subsumed into thoughtful at times achingly melancholic meditations.

Curiously, despite the allusion to this album, only a couple of the songs therefrom are covered and most of the rest are plungingly rock orchestrated (no synthaxe) with big drums and ear bashing production values. So, not perhaps the subtlest of tributes, but everyone hears their favourite artists in their own particular way.