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The foot-tapping, rolling, ‘Farmhand Blues’, explains the backbreaking hardships of
working the Californian land.

The mellow, sweet guitar and vocals on ‘Birdwatchin’’ amply illustrates the benefits
of being an ornithologist, whilst the burning, burring fuzz-guitar on ‘Alabama’ leans
enjoyably into Americana. ‘Linden Lane’, is a lyrical, sentimental southern tale of

age, manners and hardiness.

A sleazy slide drives ‘Moonlight’ recalling a tale of two people enjoying a single night
of passion and a prowling ‘Cynical’, pleasantly mixes psychedelic guitar work with

a slow burning slide.

Another slow burner is ‘If I Were King’, which mixes, soul searching and slide guitar.
‘Mother Lee’, introspective, swirling, guitar laden emotional confusion.

‘December 1980’ is a mournful, shuffle upon the demise of John Lennon and ‘You
Ain’t No Loving Woman’ is a burning ballad, recounting the emotional effect of
shallow love. ‘Pecos’ is a country rocker focused on the cowboy and his faithful,

trusty steed. A true cowboy love.

‘On My Way On Down’, is a burning, wailing tale of a life sinking to its lowest and
‘Dovetail Joints’ is a gentle, slow paced guitar piece which salutes the ignored,

honest, industrious working-class.

Recommended!

Brian Harman

Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram—Hard Road—Red Zero
Records ASIN: B0FD8H7QLC

This is Christone’s third album and it is again produced

by Tom Hambridge, with Christone, Tom and Richard
Flemming writing most of the tracks. Opener ‘Truth’ is
a funky autobiographical song with him saying that he

wants to go his own way – “I don’t care what you call it,
as long as it feels good”! ‘Bad Like Me’ and ‘S.S.S.’ are
both very rocky with processed lead guitar but ‘Nuthin’

But Your Love’ slows things down, it’s like a cross
between modern R&B and country. ‘Crosses’ and the following ‘Voodoo Charm’ are
both more bluesy and with very Hendrix- like guitar interludes.

‘Clearly’ is another laid-back song, a mix of soul and gospel with some lovely organ
from Marty Sammon and with Christone’s confident, authoritative vocals, while
‘Standing on Business’ is one of the album’s real highlights, it’s catchy with a ‘perky’

rhythm – again more modern R&B than blues. It’s back to funk with ‘Hard to Love’
but with fine blues lead guitar from Christone and we finish with ‘Memphis’ an
acoustic blues with just Mr. Ingram’s guitar and vocals, together with nice harp from