Play the Blues in Bloomington, MN

Considering the troubled background of this album (
Eric Clapton
,
Ahmet Ertegun
, and
Tom Dowd
only ended up with eight tracks at a series of 1970 sessions in Miami; two years later,
the J. Geils Band
was brought in to cut two additional songs to round out the long-delayed LP for 1972 release), the results were pretty impressive.
Buddy Guy
contributes dazzling lead axe to their revival of
"T-Bone Shuffle"
;
Junior Wells
provides a sparkling remake of
Sonny Boy
's
"My Baby She Left Me,"
and
Guy
is entirely credible in a grinding
Otis Redding
mode on the
Southern soul
stomper
"A Man of Many Words."
~ Bill Dahl