Mannish Boys - Big Plans (2007)

1.	Border Town Blues
2.	I Can't Stay Here
3.	I Get So Worried
4.	Mary Jane
5.	Carpet Bagger Blues
6.	Just to Be with You
7.	Gotta Move
8.	Why Do Things Happen to Me
9.	Groan My Blues Away
10.	Mine All Mine
11.	Young & Tender
12.	My Baby's a Good 'Un
13.	Broken Hearted Blues
14.	Walkin' Down Fillmore
15.	California Blues

Mannish Boys: 
Kirk Fletcher, Frank "Paris Slim" Goldwasser (guitar); 
Kid Ramos (baritone guitar); 
Leon Blue (piano); 
Richard 'Big Foot' Innes (drums); 
Tom Leavey, Finis Tasby, Johnny Dyer, Randy Chortkoff.
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Jody Williams (vocals, guitar); 
Johnny Dyer, Randy Chortkoff (vocals, harmonica); 
Rob Rio, Leon Blue (vocals, piano); 
Finis Tasby, Bobby Lee Jones (vocals); 
Kid Ramos (guitar, slide guitar); 
Mitch Kashmar (harmonica); 
Jeff Big Dad Turmes (alto saxophone, upright bass); 
David Woodford (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); 
Larry Taylor (upright bass); 
Tom Leavey (electric bass).

The second studio album by contemporary electric blues supergroup the Mannish Boys delivers straightforward Chicago-style blues in an unfussy setting. The list of special guests is as long as the nine-piece band, including guest singers Jody Williams and Bobby Lee Jones, guitarist Rick Holmstrom, pianist Rob Rio, bassists Jeff Big Dad Turmes and Larry "The Mole" Taylor, harmonica player Mitch Kashmar and saxophonist David Woodford. As a result, no one singer or instrumentalist predominates, giving Big Plans a sort of R&B revue feel. The songs are mostly originals by members of the band including bandleader Randy Chortkoff and slide guitarist Frank Goldwasser; while the band get points for largely avoiding the temptation to simply bash out the usual electric blues suspects, none of the album's original material sounds likely to join the blues canon. A fairly low-key, genial album, Big Plans is considerably less than its title suggests, but it's likely enough for fans of contemporary electric blues. ---Stewart Mason, AllMusic Review

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