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Title: Good Chicago slide-guitar blues
Review: If you haven't been to the Checkerboard Lounge on East 43rd Street in Chicago at 2 AM, drinking Budweisers at the long, slender, rickety tables there, eyeing the sometimes exotic females that come into the place and listening to a smoky blues band (I have, and the experience is beautiful), this CD will get you close. And for good reason; although J B Hutto and His Hawks weren't regulars at the Checkerboard, they did have a gig at the nearby Turner's Blue Lounge back in the '60s. This is good, straight-up, old-fashioned Chicago slide-guitar blues, nothing fancy, with many tunes about women and alcohol (Rory Gallagher's great track "Too Much Alcohol", found on his Irish Tour CD, is taken from a J D Hutto track). On this CD, you get a bonus with Sunnyland Slim playing organ. J B Hutto is long gone, but the music lives on; recommended for knowledgeable blues fans. Real juke-joint stuff.
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