The Smokin' Joe Kubek Band - Texas Cadillac (1994)

Tracklist

01. Mellow Down Easy
02. Still A Fool
03. Seems Like A Million Years
04. Show You What They See
05. TV Light
06. Mean Old World
07. Texas Cadillac
08. Where Can You Be
09. Little Red Rooster
10. No Time
11. Must Have Missed A Turn

Smokin' Joe Kubek's third Rounder album juggles blues-rock originals with faithful, exuberant covers of Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters and Little Walter Jacobs, among others. Kubek is a good, sometimes captivating guitarist and entertaining singer, if not the greatest pure vocalist, and the band rips through the 11 cuts in a relaxed, yet passionate fashion. But it's hard for any longtime blues fan to get excited over hearing another version of "Little Red Rooster" or "Mean Old World"; it's impossible to reinvent Delta, urban, Texas or West Coast blues. The solution is probably to make the best music you can and hope you hook those willing to listen to contemporary blues rather than spurn it for the originals.

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