A big band tribute to pioneering Southern rock band , 2019's balances brightly swinging jazz with earthy, electric-guitar twang. The brainchild of executive producer , the album features a bevy of Nashville studio pros known collectively here as the . Included among them is guitarist (and director of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of Alabama School of Music) , who solos throughout and supplies several arrangements. Also showcased are a handful of guest artists including trombonist , slide guitarist , and singers and . While at first the notion of a big band take on the bluesy, hard-rocking sound of late guitarist and his brother, singer/keyboardist , might seem like an odd fit, it works quite well. The group don't actually have to alter the band's music much to make it work here -- tracks like the opening "Statesboro Blues," "Hot 'Lanta," and "Don't Want You No More" were already fairly swinging songs built around solo-friendly R&B forms. Here, "Statesboro" gets a -esque treatment via trombonist , as offers a soulful vocal lead. also grabs the spotlight on "Don't Want You Know More," supplying a bluesy soprano trombone solo against 's juicy organ backing. Even the gritty "Whipping Post" works here with again evoking the gospel-tinged source material as the band plays a dynamically re-harmonized version of the song's classic, driving bass riff. Even the more esoteric songs like the flowing ballad "Dreams" and guitarist ' trippy instrumental "Les Brers in A Minor" fit easily into the sonically expansive yet tightly swinging approach of the . The loose spirit and genre-crossing sense of discovery that drove much of ' music is at work here. ~ Matt Collar