Blues is a stone-cold soul picnic.
From the first note of this cozy little CD, Jimmy Smith is deftly twiddling the keys with a purpose and making you smile. With the help of blues doctors like Etta James, Dr. John, B.B. King, Taj Mahal, and Keb Mo, adding vocals and some of their own tunes to Jimmy's, I am betting that he cures those blues might fast, or slow, as it goes. This is a great CD, folks, filled with clean production and sprinkled with the Texicali Horns for extra measure. The really nice thing about adding this peppering of great blues talent to an already legendary Hammond B-3 player like Jimmy Smith is that you change up the feel of the music with almost every tune. Each artist brings his or her own soul and song to the party.