Davenport Lester - When The Blues Hit You (2005)

Tracklist

01. King of the Jungle
02. I Believe My Baby Got a Mojo
03. I'm Gonna Move
04. Slow Down Baby
05. It Won't Work Like That
06. All My Life
07. Mad Dog on the Loose
08. Walkin' the Streets at Midnight
09. Just for Spite
10. My Baby's Gone
11. I'm Gonna Give It Up
12. When the Blues Hit You

The Mad Dog is such a powerful soloist in the Little Walter vein (the Big Walter vein, too, before that worthy turned so introspective) such that you wish he'd just keep going.... The model here is pretty clearly the Muddy Waters ensemble... That's OK with me - the Morganfield model is a durable one and Lester even sings a bit like the Master... As for backup, we've got John Primer, guitarist in Muddy's last band and a student of Sammy Lawhorn... Add Sunnyland Slim, his accomplices Stroger and Covington, and the right amount of chugging and scratching from Willie Davis, and you've got a band that ought to tour... Excellent recording. Go for it.

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