01. Let The Chips Fall 03:14
02. Eye Of The Witch 04:15
03. House Of Shame 05:04
04. One More Cry For Love 04:19
05. Older Fool 03:16
06. Crime Of The Century 04:05
07. Glad You're Gone 01:06
08. Your Good Thing 04:17
09. When Love Comes Knocking 03:57
10. I'm Free 04:43
11. Keeps Me Believing 04:49

Rochester, New York, guitarist Chris Beard’s career got off to a promising start with two Cds for JSP in 1997 and in 2001, but it was derailed when he suffered a stroke shortly after the release of his 2005 recording for Northern Blues. Forced to adapt his guitar style to compensate for the residual effects of the stroke, he arrived back on the scene in impressive fashion with 2010’s Who I Am and What I Do for Electro Glide. Another five years passed before this latest release on his own Destin imprint.

Like its predecessor, this album was produced by Carlton Campbell, a member of the sacred steel Campbell family, who also contributes some of the keyboard, bass and drum parts. In contrast to his JSP debut, Beard’s guitar work is more reminiscent of Albert King than B.B., as is evident from the opening original Let the Chips Fall. The title track that follows is appropriately atmospheric, and House of Shame, one of several tracks penned by Alan Mirikitani and Dennis Walker, keeps things at a low simmer before the sinuous mid-tempo One More Cry for Love. Beard’s dad, Joe, the reigning patriarch of the Rochester blues scene, joins in to boogie with the young folks on his son’s Older Fool, and there’s a touch of James Brown on Love Comes Knocking. The downtempo Glad You’re Gone and I’m Free show the Albert King influence, and Crime of the Century is a sardonic slice of modern funk, while Good Thing’s About to Run Out is an updated stop-time shuffle, and Keeps Me Believing closes the set on a reflective note.

Though no longer one of the music’s young guns—he was born in 1957—Eye of the Witch is further proof that Chris Beard remains a force to be reckoned with on today’s blues scene. --- digital.livingblues.com

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01.Ten Toes Up 03:06
02.High Cost Of Living 03:51
03.Silver Spoon 05:35
04.Somebody's Sleeping 08:37
05.The Girl Is Ready 03:31
06.I Still Love You 03:57
07.Party Tonight 03:17
08.You're The One 05:22
09.It's Over 06:34
10.Born To Play The Blues 03:20

Personnel includes:
Chris Beard – guitar, vocals
Eric Little – trumpet
Alan Murphy – trombone
Marvin Williams – tenor sax
Robert Garcia – drums

Guitarist, singer and songwriter Chris Beard is the son of Rochester-area blues guitarist Joe Beard. He has been patiently paying his dues on the club circuit around the Northeast for the last 20 years. Beard, who goes by the nickname "Prince of the Blues," is one of the young lions of blues in the 1990s. He can be safely grouped with other idiom-expanding artists like Larry Garner, Tutu Jones and Michael Hill.

Beard began playing guitar at age five, inspired by all the blues talent his father had over to the house -- artists like Buddy Guy and Matt "Guitar" Murphy. He learned to play "Green Onions" as a 6-year-old, and at 15 he began playing with a local classic rhythm & blues ensemble. He continued playing in local bands and sitting in with his father's band through high school. After graduation, he began fronting his own group and writing his own songs, taking inspiration from people like Albert King and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. --- Richard Skelly, allmusic

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