Crucial Acoustic Blues (2007)

01. High Heel Sneakers - Junior Wells
02. Oreo Cookie Blues - Stevie Ray Vaughan
03. Stop Running 'Round - Carey Bell
04. Down in the Alley - Bob Margolin
05. Sloppy Drunk - Saffire The Uppity Blues Women
06. The Man Next Door – Koko Taylor
07. Railroad Bill - John Jackson
08. Evil on My Mind - Johnny Winter				play
09. Trouble in Mind - Cephas & Wiggins
10. So Tough with Me - Sonny Terry
11. Baby Bee - Kenny Neal
12. God Don't Ever Change - Corey Harris		play
13. The Dirty Dozens - Johnny Jones

I discovered so many great artist from this disc. I have purchased almost all of their cds based on what I heard here. --- Todd A. Hooper, amazon.com

Alligator Records shows a different side of its house-rocking face on this 13-cut collection of acoustic blues. While Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Bukka White don't appear here, other performers -- some of whom one normally associates with overdriven electricity -- are. Buddy Guy is present, as is Stevie Ray Vaughan. Koko Taylor's "The Man Next Door" is here and it's one of her greatest performances on record. In addition, Johnny Winter, who was no stranger to a National Steel string bottleneck earlier in his career, returns to give it another go, and the true roots doctor Corey Harris is here with "God Don't Ever Change," and Carey and Lurrie Bell with "Stop Running Around." Guy's "Hi Heel Sneakers" is terrific as is Winter's "Evil on My Mind." But it's those that are normally associated with the acoustic blues like Harris, Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women, Cephas & Wiggins, John Jackson and the legendary Sonny Terry who come off best, bringing the true rhythm and mystery with them into their songs. This is a hip collection that will make the feet shuffle and the backbone slip. And it's sold for a song, so why not? ---Thom Jurek, allmusic.com

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