50 years of Como MS blues : greatest blues songs vol. 1

"This CD, produced by Hannes Folterbauer and Wolf Records, is a great introduction for listeners to get an idea of where the blues came from. The genre coalesced from the music of the plantations from Emancipation to the turn of the century. This music is the result of what happened in that period in the upper Mississippi Delta where the hill country musicians gave rise to a version of the blues that is unique and all their own".

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" ... the music is almost unfailingly superb - unadorned, intense, uncompromisingly raw, and immediate. With the arguable exception of [Mississippi Fred] McDowell, none of these artists was a virtuoso, but that hardly matters. As riveting as their playing and singing can be to us at home, where we can quietly immerse ourselves in the wracked lyric poetry and layered musical textures (stinging slide work, propulsive bass and rhythm lines), it's also easy to understand how, even performing solo, they could goad juke joint revelers to dance, drink, and, if they got lucky, "cock it on the wall" ... listeners who are able to transcend preconceived notions of what is and isn't "contemporary" (or, for that matter, "authentic") should be able to summon rare depths of meaning, pleasure, and satisfaction from this sampling of some of the richest blues the Hill Country has to offer".