James Wheeler - Can't Take ItBlues guitarist first started his own band way back in 1963, backing many greats as they passed through Chicago, inc. Al Green, Johnny Taylor, Etta James & others this, his 2nd Delmark album, further establishes him as a tasteful & talented bandleader & recording artist.

dedicated to Cristiano Porqueddu and highly evocative in it's opening movement of the rocky terrain and harsh contrasts of the Sardinian landscape which is also Porqueddu's native land

Larry Golding's & Bill Stewart

"Humans have always been pretty terrible

fellow veteran Paul Hood concocts spacey abstractions

Animal Music now releases a life recording of this concert

this time with the complicity of the Ensemble Contraste: "We all have a few notes of Schubert buried deep inside us

but you can distinguish three blocks and a concluding part

In among the slow blues such as the autobiographical Street Car Blues and Poor John Blues are the stomping Stop That Thing and I Want To Tear It Down

together with his immortal Requiem

This release provided each of us with a good opportunity to grow

it takes on a comforting warmth

bringing her unique brand of musicianship and warm artistry to an ever-increasing audience