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Come Back Baby
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Bluesman
made the leap to
for 2012's
. It was a natural home for the Chicago-born guitarist, so it's not surprising everybody was ready for a second bite at the apple, one that comes in the form of 2014's
. Working with a combo that contains guitarist
, keyboardist
, bassist
, and drummer
-- the anchor that's occasionally augmented by a horn section and, on three cuts, harpist
--
achieves a nice balance between classic Windy City grinds and fresher, funkier workouts. If the bright punch of
's production seems to suit the funkier stuff a bit better than the slow, dirty crawls,
sells both styles, sounding equally committed when he's digging into the thick "I Got a Woman" (an original, not a
cover) or leering with the verve of a younger man on "Booze and Blues," "Booty Call," and "Funky Feeling." He may be "Too Old to Be a New Fool," as he sings one of his slow 12-bar originals, but he hardly seems spent here. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine