is a lesson in focused hostility
Roy Haynes' drumming is unmistakable
and Steve Kilbey's arresting lyrical imagery ("In the space between our bodies / The air has grown small fingers")
with "10538 Overture" and "Point of No Return" added to the collection -- Lynne has simply set out to re-record the originals so they sound brighter
HUDDIE LEDBETTER'S BEST: HIS GUITAR 12/7/2010 is a lesson in focusedLeadbelly's last recording sessions for a commercial record label, held in the early fall of 1944, yielded a dazzling 12 songs, embracing virtuoso guitar blues ("Grasshoppers in My Pillow"), pounding piano driven scatting ("The Eagle Rocks," with Leadbelly himself at the ivories, a talent for which he wasn't usually recognized), and familiar standards done in some startlingly different ways, including "Goodnight, Irene," "Rock Island Line," and "Ella