Title: a delta voice in the windy city
Review: Unlike many of his peers, Chicago-based Jimmy Burns writes, sings and plays his Delta blues like he never left the country and never let the city break his heart or rot his roots. Perhaps not relying upon music as a means to a living allowed him to maintain a more positive sense of his rural upbringing and keep at bay the demons of the city. In any case this is a very strong, energetic and emotionally uplifting contemporary blues album with a vocal and guitar style as easy flowing as the Mississippi on an early summer evening a half-century ago. This is Jimmy Burns at his peak in 2003 with the promise of a productive recording future as long as he's heard more.
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