9/1/2006

Rick Anderson

Australian guitarist and songwriter Fiona Boyes is as thoroughly steeped in country blues as any American currently playing today, as both her impressive guitar picking and joyfully idiomatic compositions clearly demonstrate on this, her debut album. She's joined here by such luminaries as Marcia Ball and Bob Margolin, but no one who listens to "Good Lord Made You So" or "Chicken Wants Corn" will feel any need to check her references further -- this is great, greasy stuff.