Superb blues as I like it - I recommend this to allblues lovers
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I decided to buy this unheard because I love my other Jimmmy Dawkins albums. The decision was also reinforced by the presence of Otis Rush, another fine guitarist. So what did go wrong. 1) The songs are not up to Jimmies normally good to very good standards. There is no one track that hits you. Most of this stuff would be fillers on his other albums ("Fast fingers" and "Kant Shek Dese Blues" being two very good examples of usually exemplary work. 2) Jimmy is a very good singeras well as being a great guitarist so why are all but two of the vocals given to Big Voice Odom. Not a bad singer but not better than equal to Jimmy Dawkins. This is a big problem with Jimmy. He tends to put The Blues first and his own career a poor second. This, to my mind, 9is fine if the man is so-so but not when enormous talent is being hidden. He did somehting similar with "Kant shek dese blues" in that two of the vocal where by a female singer, name forgotten and I cant be arsed to walk the length of the house to see who it was, but this was only two tracks and the rest was Jimmy Dawkins. Incidentally the lady who got the other two tracks was quite good but never mind eh. 3) How vcan any album featuring OR and JD be a failure. Otis Rush is notoriously difficult to work with but Jimmy Dawkins as played support on several of Otis's albums. Clearly there is an element of trust and mutual respect so what did go wrong with that aspect of the album. Basically it's a mish mash with no clear leadership on either side. The jams are meaningless and totally unfocused. despte being an Otis Rush fan I blame this on him. His studio performances with the exception of the late firties / early sixties sides tend to be indifferent and on this album it shows big time. Despite having plenty of space left to comment I end with only one. When I buy a Jimmy Dawkins album that's who I want to hear. O.K. I would be more than inetersted in hearing any other views on the subject.Read full review
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