Title: Extreme Weariness
Product review: There is an extreme weariness to this album. Robert Pete Williams obviously experienced a harsh and brutal life at Angola Penitentiary. The songs on this album range from very good to gripping in their sheer intensity. The reason that I am giving this album four stars is that I enjoy the guitar work, and the variety of the guitar work, on Williams' "The Sonet Blues Story", and, especially, "I'm As Blue As A Man Can Be", which is my favorite Williams album thus far, much more. I would like to state that one of the songs on this album- I believe it to be "I've Grown So Ugly"- sounds a great deal like the music James Brown and his band would make later in the decade (the 1960s). My friend pointed this out to me and I was shocked. I have not seen this written or spoken about anywhere else, and it is highly unlikely that Williams was inspired by a popular artist like Brown, who had not yet recorded in the style we know him for, back in 1960 when "Free Again" was recorded!
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