Californian guitarist/ singer/ songwriter Cotton cut this CD in Clarksdale, Mississippi; produced and recorded by Jimbo Mathus at his tiny studio in the former home of radio station WROX. Backed up by bass, drums (the excellent Lee Williams), fiddle and piano, Cotton has produced a knockabout session of small group blues including a killer original in ‘Morgan City, Mississippi’ and a super version of ‘Dying Crapshooters Blues’.

Big Jack Johnson is featured on slide on ‘Black Night’ (an original, not the better known song) however the standout song has to be ‘Blues For Big Bill’ (Broonzy obviously!) This session came as a real out of left field surprise, I liked it a lot and if you like small group (mostly) retro acoustic blues then I think that you will definitely like this disc.