Robben Ford Discovering The Blues

I like to think of Robben Ford as the flip side of Jimi Hendrix. If Jimi hit you like a dump truck full of cement, Robben slices your soul like red hot piano wire. He's always in control, always perfectly phrased. He revs it up and slows it down with perfect precision. The sad thing is that most people like his later stuff with short solos and more cheezy songs. If you listen to a guitar player, why not listen to an album like this, or Robben in the Charles Ford band, where he lets loose? Robben is a blues guitar player. That means he's at the height of his powers playing straight blues like this, *not* cheezy jazz like Tiger Walk. Robben is truly, truly, one of the great all-time blues guitar players, as good as SRV. This is one of the only recordings that proves it.