1 	Reformed Man 		4:08
2 	Mean Disposition 		3:28
3 	Slide to Slide 		4:20
4 	From a Pawn to a King 		3:03
5 	Tell Me Baby 		2:19					play
6 	Hooker & The Hogs 		5:45
7 	Someday, Baby 		3:13
8 	Diving Duck 		3:45
9 	No Place to Go 		5:01
10 	Me & The Devil 		2:48
11 	Death Letter 		4:57
12 	Can't Be Satisfied 		2:36				play
13 	Still a Fool 		3:25
14 	Write Me a Few Short Lines 		5:56
15 	Down in the Bottom 		4:06

Personnel: Tony McPhee  (Guitar, Vocals).

Now this is more like it -- Tony McPhee alone in his home studio with just his Yamaha FG180 on the first six tracks, doing whatever comes to mind. Mostly, as the title suggests, he plays some nimble slide guitar through some appropriately raspy-voiced renditions of "Reformed Man," "Mean Disposition," "Tell Me Baby," and the obviously autobiographical "Hooker & the Hogs." The other nine songs were cut solo by McPhee in concert during 1993, and he comes off even better there, his playing even more nimble and his singing far more expressive on songs like Son House's "Death Letter," Muddy Waters' "I Just Can't Be Satisfied," and Howlin' Wolf's "Down In the Bottom" and "No Place To Go," among others. The fidelity on the live stuff, cut with a Yamaha APX-6 in Vienna, is also excellent. --- Bruce Eder, allmusic.com

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1.Someday Baby - Sleepy John Estes
2.Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
3.Love In Vain - Robert Johnson
4.Oh Death - Trad
5.Down In The Bottom - Howlin' Wolf
6.Crawling King Snake - John Lee Hooker, Bernard Besman	play
7.32-20 - Robert Johnson
8.Diving Duck - Sleepy John Estes
9.Catfish - Muddy Waters
10.Dimples - James C. Bracken/John Lee Hooker
11.Death Letter - Son House
12.Come On In My Kitchen - Robert Johnson			play
13.No Place To Go - Howlin' Wolf
14.Who Knows? [ This track sounds like Howlin' Wolf's "Smoke Stack Lightnin'" ]
15.Write Me A Few Short Lines - Fred McDowell

Tony McPhee – guitar, vocals

"The Blues & the Beast", recorded in 1991 is a superb collection of acoustic blues standards from the brilliant Tony McPhee Tony goes down very deep into traditional blues on this album. This CD has only been released in Germany, and is a very exclusive recording.

Tony McPhee (born Anthony Charles McPhee, 23 March 1944, at Redlands House, near Humberston, Lincolnshire) is an English blues guitarist, and founder of The Groundhogs.

The Groundhogs backed Champion Jack Dupree and John Lee Hooker on UK concerts in the mid 1960s, evolving into a blues-rock trio that produced three UK Top 10 hits in the UK Albums Chart in the early 1970s.

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