Junior Kimborough made this record shortly before his death and you can hear on the record that he's about had it with this world. The album will start eerily with an (almost) instrumental of just Juniour and his guitar, surveying the land and telling you how much he's lonely. But like all good blues even if it's sad it makes you happy and pumped when you listen to it and shortly enough after this melancholic introduction song the album kicks in proper with some heavy drum pounding and vocal wailing. When it kicks into fifth gear it does not stop until the end and then it just leaves you wondering how much more this man could do if he kept on living. But we should happy with what we got because this is (to me at least) the closest perfection to electric blues that I'll ever hear. Raw, hard and sad this is what's it all about!
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