Confessin' (1999)

About this title: This is a long-awaited release (on Black Top) by a promising guitarist. Rusty Zinn carries more weight than the guitar-slinger epithet tells. He is an exceptional songwriter, as the five tunes he wrote or co-wrote on this disc will show. Plus, he is a singer and is exceptionally good at handling other people's material. Give a listen to the treatment he gives to Robert Nighthawk's "Someday"; he makes it his own song without messing up the writer's intentions. A very large plus is that the material he is doing isn't the Chicago sound that is so popular with a lot of young guitarists. He is ... read more

Tracks:

1. Best of Luck Baby [Jarrett]
2. Mimi [Estrin/Zinn]
3. Don't Let It Be in Vain [Lowman]
4. Messin' With My Bread [Burns]
5. You Were Wrong [Hill]
6. Confessin' About My Baby [Zinn]
7. Sad Old Lonesome Day [Zinn]
8. Someday [Nighthawk]
9. Lucille [Zinn]
10. Hey Little Girl [Davis]
11. Your Turn to Cry [Johnson]
12. Big Road Blues [Johnson]
13. Think [Pauling]
14. If You Ever Get Lonesome [Otis/Page]
15. Come Get These Blues up off Me [Estrin]

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