2008-10-06
This CD brings together artists who were legendary in the Nashville, Tennessee blues scene years ago. The 18 cuts are all rather banal down-home-blues style tunes (think Z.Z. Hill or Clarence Carter without their spunk) and many of the tunes are disappointingly predictable. For example, on track #12, Girlfriend Blues, Johnny Jones describes discovering his girlfriend in bed with another woman (who “ironically” is a woman he was having an affair with) and of course, he wraps up the song with the hope of joining in.RUTHIE FOSTER
The Truth According to Ruthie Foster
ELVIN BISHOP
ELVIN BISHOP'S BIG FUN TRIO
Adrienne Fenemor's Kiwi Blue
Blues Jam
DICKY JAMES AND THE BLUE FLAMES
Hard Rain
Tommy Castro
Painkiller
Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt
Slide To Freedom
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