40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve in Bloomington, MN

If one can overlook
Stan Webb
's hyperventilating vocal excesses (which ain't easy), this is a promising debut, especially noteworthy for
Webb
's
Freddie King
-inspired guitar sting and
Christine Perfect
's understated vocals (only two, unfortunately compared to
's six).
does justice to his mentor with two instrumentals,
King
"San-Ho-Zay"
and his own
"Webbed Feet,"
and
Perfect
proves the ideal counterpart -- one of the few pianists paying homage to
's longtime collaborator
Sonny Thompson
. Nice spare sound, typical of
Mike Vernon
Blue Horizon
label. ~ Dan Forte