13 Featuring Lester Butler (1997)

About this title: From the opening harp honk of "So Low Down," and one is immediately struck by the fact that this is one dirty-sounding, forward-looking blues album, entering into territories usually unexplored by the pleated pants and berets hardliners intent on regurgitating their own record collections. There is not one slickly played, sung, or produced note to be found anywhere on this disc, making it stand out from the rest of the pack right from the beginning. Harmonica man/vocalist Lester Butler's songwriting pen comes up with nine of the 13 tracks on this disc, and all of them are every bit as finely ... read more

Tracks:

1. So Low Down [Butler]
2. HNC [Butler]
3. Sweet Tooth [Butler]
4. Black Hearted Woman [Butler]
5. Close to You [Dixon]
6. Smokestack Lightning [Howlin' Wolf]
7. Pray for Me
8. So Mean to Me [James/Ling]
9. Way Down South [Butler]
10. Boogie Disease [Ross]
11. Plague of Madness [Butler]
12. Down in the Alley [Butler]
13. Baby Please Don't Go [Williams]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.