Considering the troubled background of this album (
Eric Clapton,
Ahmet Ertegun, and
Tom Dowd only ended up with eight tracks at a series of 1970 sessions in Miami; two years later,
the J. Geils Band was brought in to cut two additional songs to round out the long-delayed LP for 1972 release), the results were pretty impressive.
Buddy Guy contributes dazzling lead axe to their revival of "T-Bone Shuffle";
Junior Wells provides a sparkling remake of
Sonny Boy's "My Baby She Left Me," and
Guy is entirely credible in a grinding
Otis Redding mode on the Southern soul stomper "A Man of Many Words." ~ Bill Dahl