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Title: Just Won't Cut It
Review: Those critics perhaps have a better understanding of blues than most listeners. Look at the customer comments carefully, and see how many of them say that Tedeschi is "just like Janis Joplin" or words to that effect. That should tip you off. While I think this effort has its fine moments, it sure comes across as someone trying desperately to painstakingly mimic the Joplin style. Perhaps this is because Tedeschi, like many other performers these days, is well aware of the seemingly unsatiable thirst of baby-boomers for nostalgia. Tedeschi may sound fine, but you have to ask, "Why listen to a Joplin clone when you can still get the original stuff of Janis?" In my view, most of the songs on "Just Won't Burn" would work well in a "Saturday Night Live" skit which parodies Janis Joplin -- not as great blues for the 1990s.
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