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sounds very much to me like John Nemeth with his soulful singing and fine harp
playing (he took lessons from Rick Estrin as a young man). Listen to the original
‘Wishing You the Best’ and Estrin’s song ‘I’ll take You Back’. He also tackles Billy Boy
Arnold’s ‘Kissing at Midnight’, St. Louis Jimmy’s ‘Complete the Order’ and Junior

Parker’s ‘Backtracking’ but his own ‘Gamblin’ Blues’ is a great deep blues with down
and dirty guitar. ‘Coffee Man’ is a nice original acoustic song and the album finishes
with the old gospel song ‘This Train’ where Kyle resists letting Little Walter’s ‘My
Babe’ influence him - this version is pure Rosetta Tharpe. I’ll look forward to hearing

what he does next.

Graham Harrison
Bob Corritore—Early Blues Sessions—Vizztone

ASIN : B0FM3BH6LV

This is the latest compilation by Bob from his “From the
Vaults” sessions featuring recordings made between
1984 and 2007 with him playing harp with blues greats,
many of which have now passed away. We begin with
Little Milton and ‘I Want to Be the One’ recorded in 2002
featuring both Milton’s guitar and vocals and with a

lovely harp solo from Bob and also piano from Henry
Gray, then it’s drummer Sam Lay singing Arthur Crudup’s
‘So Glad I’m Living’. ‘She Loves Another Man’ by Jimmy
Rogers is quite jazzy and drummer Chico Chism sings on a great version of the classic
Chicago blues by Eddie Boyd ‘Five Long Years’.

There’s more jazzy blues with Robert Lockwood Jr’s instrumental ‘Naptown Blues’
with Bob on chromatic harmonica and Robert also gives us a more typical version
of Robert Johnson’s ‘Ramblin’ on My Mind’. J.B. Hutto’s ‘Hip Shakin’ features the
exciting slide guitar and vocals of Little Ed with Bob again on chromatic and he’s
also on chromatic on ‘Showers of Rain’ featuring Henry Gray on vocals and piano.
The final track ‘West Texas Blues’ (’Matchbox’ Blues?) is by Lowell Fulson but is just
Lowell on guitar and Bob on harp very much in the country blues idiom. We also
get to hear Bob playing with Dave Riley, Tomcat Courtney, Clarence Edwards, King
Karl and Jimmy Dotson, all the tracks are well-produced and played and are
rock-solid Chicago blues.

Graham Harrison

GA-20—Just One More Time—Colemine Distribution
Services

This is the new line-up of GA-20 which sees Cody Nilson

(vocals, guitar) and Josh Kiggans (drums) joining the
band’s original guitarist Mathew Stubbs. We kick off with

the title track, Ike Turner’s rocking blues with Cody
howling out the vocals and Mathew’s psyche guitar and

next up it’s Little Walter’s restrained ‘My Baby’s Sweeter’.