Here and Now
The language of the blues is available to everyone, and  probably more to the guy who helped invent rock & roll with 1951's  "Rocket 88" than to most people--thoughTina's ex-husband  might have thought twice before including quite so many lyrics on his  comeback album about how women keep leaving him and he doesn't  understand why. Even so, the whammy bar on Turner's Stratocaster has  lost none of its sting. He bangs on the piano like a man a quarter his  age, too, and when he manages to dodge the curse of modern  electro-percussion,Here and Nowhas the drive and verve of the records  he made half a century ago. Turner even reaches back for remakes of  "Rocket 88" and a few other jump-blues faves, like Albert Ammons's  arrangement of "Swanee River Boogie."--Douglas Wolk