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...VOTE RY RELIGION...
...Blind Blake, however, provides a much more substantial link to the direction the guitar would take. Blake played in the more sophisticated ragtime style, laying down syncopated bass lines with his thumb while picking out complex melodic patterns with his fingers, and anyone interested in the fingerpicking styles of Ry Cooder (who recorded Blake's "Diddie Wa Diddie") and Jorma Kaukonen can hear where it all started on these tracks. The Blake collection also benefits from better fidelity, perhaps a function of the guitarist's forceful playing style, which projects with considerably greater impact than Jefferson's. But both anthologies...
...bullets on his second solo outing, "Levee Town," turning out a sturdy batch of bluesy "swamp pop" that's fairly dripping with riffsome virtuosity. Landreth's bailiwick is electric slide guitar, to which he brings a a killer sound and a revved-up attitude that takes the legacy of Ry Cooder and Lowell George and gooses...
...debut, recently reissued by Columbia. A straight-ahead, unadorned production precludes any embarrassingly groovy anachronisms and lets the band get down to business, namely about 30 minutes of some of the best rocking blues ever committed to vinyl. The grooves are deep, and the band simply smokes: That's Ry Cooder on guitar, and he's not even playing lead; meanwhile, Taj sounds like he's trying to blow his entire six-foot-four frame through the reeds of his harmonica and sings like he means it, eschewing the whimsy of his later efforts. But the real revelation is Jesse...