Tim "Too Slim" Langford - Pint Store Blues

I thought that Tim was sitting in my listening room and playing a concert just for me when this disc first hit the CD player. It is so well recorded and so perfectly played that I had to look around to make sure that the room was empty. What you get here is Delta blues that sounds thoroughly current. Don't get me wrong; the instrumentation is authentic (guitar, dobro, bass and percussion complete with spoons and thumps). But there is a vibrancy and an undeniable quality of delivery that adds freshness and excitement to the music. The main influence is Lightnin' Hopkins, but songs by Kotke, Waters, Dylan and Dixon are also covered. Something old is truly new again.