Brother Yusef & The F.B. Experience - Live & Raw (2001)

1. Let The Good Times Roll
2. My Baby's Lovin' Someone Else
3. Power Of The Blues
4. Get Outta Town
5. Sweet Woman Tonite
6. A Little Front Porch Thang
7. Cigar Box & Coffee Can Blues
8. Big Daddy
9. Jesus On My Mind
10. Hey There Blues
11. Johnny B. Goode
12. This Little Light Of Mine
13. Hoochie Coochie Man
14. Back At The Crossroads

Brother Yusef: guitar, vocals. cigar box guitar
Robert Hilton: washboard, harmonica, 3 stringed coffee can, single stringed paint drum 
Keith Crenshaw: drums, percussion, background shouts & comments

Live recording featuring guitar, drums and a washboard, with a few homemade instruments thrown in. A true roots experiment.

One of the greatest of the not-yet-famous players, Brother Yusef is from Bakersfield, California, a place better known for Country music than blues. For some reason his career has never quite taken off, although he is one of the best talents in the genre. With an exuberant, highly rhythmic beat and a wildly flailing slide, the dreadlocked brother chugs and stomps the blues with impassioned devotion.

He has 5 or so seemingly self-produced CDs out and he is an excellent slide player and fingerpicker, with a strong singing voice. Indeed, he sings wonderfully, which adds to the full, rich sound, which he likes to call “fatt-back”, a term not off target.

This guy has it all going, with real verve and spark. His renditions of the old classic blues are delivered with a funky, deep-roots style that will make anyone sit up and listen. Brother Yusef is ready for the big time and one hot player.

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