Jason Ricci & The Bad Kind - Approved By Snakes

Jason Ricci is an amazing innovator of the blues harmonica and "Approved By Snakes" is his first release as band leader in seven years. This is an intensely intimate, soul-baring album. Much more than a simple reed-bender, Ricci - a 2010 Blues Music Award winner for harmonica player of the year and a six-time nominee - is a performance artist of the first order who treads fearlessly in areas that most human beings run from. A master and innovator in the over-blow technique of harp play, he gets more notes out of a simple diatonic than all but a few of his peers. And his use of electronics produces tonalities that are over the top. Innovative stuff ... definitely.