***“On a 1975 album ten freshly composed country blues and a version of Robert Johnson's ‘Hot Tamale’ exist as splendent rubies in the coronet of JOHNNY SHINES. Slide guitarist/harpist LOUISIANA RED (on six songs), harmonica player SUGAR BLUE (five), and bassist RON RAULT (two) perform pithily at this studio procession, but it's Shines who's the regal personage all the way-articulate, unimpeachable, powerful, understated, innately musical, improvisatory.”— Frank John Hadley