Big Joe Louis and His Blues Kings - Big Sixteen

Big Joe Louis and Little George Sueref get credit for writing most of the material on their 1996 CD, "Big Sixteen", and executing it with assured competence. This CD shows that Big Joe Louis and His Blues Kings are right up there in the top echelon of British Blues. White blues, distinguished from the bar-band norm by arrangements which consciously echo vintage Chess Records, down to the standup bass and Little George Sueref's able approximations of Little Walter's harmonica style. File this one alongside the other contemporary British Blues CDs in your collection (Eddie Martin Band, Sonny Black and The Dukes, Paul Lamb and The Kingsnakes, and so on).