First Blood
Mike Henderson offers up a whole album's worth of blues on "First Blood."  Joining the singer-guitarist are former Stevie Ray Vaughan keyboardist Reese Wynans  and two Nashville session pros, drummer John Gardner and bassist Glen Worf. The  arrangements are neither too polite nor too self-indulgent but instead relight the original  flame inside old blues standards by J.B. Hutto, Hound Dog Taylor, and Otis  Spann. This album should shatter every stereotype about Nashville musicians.--Geoffrey Himes