"On this recording Joe is supposedly backed by Washboard Sam, Sunnyland Slim and Bloomfield but the driving rattle of his unique, alien sound dominates on 44 Blues, Terraplane Blues and Baby Please Don't Go. Writing in his 1984 book Sounds So Good To Me: The Bluesman's Story, Barry Lee Pearson remembers such a performance as "the most buzzing, sizzling, African-sounding music I have ever heard." Here's some priceless supporting evidence".