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At the time this album was recorded, the particularly intense
artist
was a protege of the
/
recording empire, which was actually two guys,
and
arranger and composer
.
's involvement with
led, as in many cases of
producers and their clients, to co-authorship on some of the songs recorded.
regarded
as an artist cut from the same cloth as
or
, and of the same quality -- meaning an intense, mood-setter of a bluesman with a sizzling improvisatory style. They were certainly accurate in their appraisal of his talent, and their interest in recording
led to several classic
albums. The fine studio sound they got on these solo recordings makes for a superior album, and it was the first
would record unencumbered by a combo backing him up. Every nuance of his playing is captured, and he is definitely the type of
player who thrives on solo work. He rarely sticks to a formula bar structure and likes to stretch out his licks as if casting out a line for fish, but he isn't a player who just stays on one chord like
often did. One of
's original
, in which he describes how his wife died of cancer, has got to set some kind of a record for misery described in a
song, meaning it is the saddest of the sad. ~ Eugene Chadbourne