National steel guitar trashman and bull-frog throated blues-hound from out Glasgow way proffers a set of covers often requested at his shows. Covers of old blues, well, and one countrybilly song to boot they may be, but are all well-done and dusted in his own goddamned sourmash squelching scotch (guard?) manner. This guitar kills cash-ists like Clapton mixing the subtle and stately splendour of Mississippi John Hurts rockin’ chair on the porch poetry of ‘Stagolee’ with an urban Muddy Waters meets Son House in a Soho strip bar uptown on Robert Johnson’s ‘Travelling Riverside Blues’ and ‘Preachin’ Blues’. One man and his resonator chases the Immortal Lee County Killers version of this latter outta town and sees ‘em scurrying back over the Blue Ridge like steeplechase champions with Sasquatch on their tails, making sawdust of ceilings from the North Sea to the Eastern seaboard. The switchblade sharp guitar lines add rattlesnakin’ venom to the equally resonant, reflexively effective vocals whether on the gently scabrous ‘Trouble In Mind’ or that typhoon tree-felling version of ‘Preachin’ Blues’. Raucous floor splintering ragged raging blues.
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- Stu Gibson