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When I saw this album I immediately fell in love! Jimmy Dawkins is standing against a brick wall, looking mean and bitter at the same time. It´d take three year for Jimmy to record again after the Earwig deal. This time he did it on the small Atlanta based label Wild Dog. I was afraid this was going to be another "I got hair on my chest I´d like to show it" album like "Kant sheck dees bluze". Luckily enough this is not the case here. In fact this is not only a good album, it´s in my opinion one of the best albums Jimmy Dawkins made!

• Right to quit you (3.54)
  The album stomps off with a fast paced shuffle. The band backing Jimmy Dawkins is very good. The organ player has the right sound, the base player plays the right lines and the rhythm guitarist throws in his chords perfectly. Jimmy's guitar is not as upfront as on "Kant sheck dees bluze" and the tone is not as compressed. I like the guitar here much better. Overall, a great opening track which clocks in just under four minutes.
• No pain (5.45)<
  Listen to this one! The echo on the song, the piercing guitar, the unison wail and guitar in the last bars and then the band! This is how Jimmy Dawkins should be backed. A fat organ, elegant rhythm guitar and solid, yet light, drums. One of the best songs Jimmy Dawkins ever recorded - not because the song in itself is so special - it´s a standard slowblues - but because everything comes together. And the song is not too long either!
• Blues and soul (3.31)
  A re-recording which rocks more than the absurd take Jimmy cut on "Hot Wire 81". A great straightforward rocking dance tune.
• Lonely Guitar Man (5.17)
  A perfect song. A slow and blue blues with great horns, great organ, wonderful baselines and terrific vocals and guitar from Jimmy Dawkins. The little touch of soul sets this in a class by itself when compared to the other "slowblueses" from this period. This is Jimmy Dawkins at his very very best. Not just his guitar - The guitar, voice, band works together. Jimmy Dawkins is not a oneman show. When he got the right backing he is the Master.
• Fool in heah (5.38)
  Something new! The song starts with a semi country blues guitar and then there´s two guitars and drums. Very very typical Jimmy Dawkins guitar. The combination of "She Moves Me" drums, a simple country blues stylish guitar and Jimmy´s blasting solo guitar is almost weird. No one plays guitar like Mr Dawkins!
• Gitar Jive (4.20)
  A killer instrumental with a killer tremolo riff at the start. One of the toughest instrumentals Jimmy recorded. The rhythm guitar is great right trough the track and the song gets more and more intense the longer it continues.
• Know your lover (4.38)BR> The first boring track on the album. A standard shuffle with some raw soloing from Dawkins.
• Driftin´ Sand (3.52)
  This is in the same mold as "You got to love somebody". Compare this track with the one on "Kant sheck dees bluze". This one is much tighter and better.
• Down with the blues (6.44)
  The weakest slowblues on the album without being bad. The competition is awfully hard!
• Who done it (3.53)
  A bouncing shuffle that doesn´t make a lasting impression.