The Pocket Rockets
featuring
Blind Mississippi Morris
Bad to Worse
Boogie Barbeque Music
rare but available on amazon
This is the blues as it comes direct down the road from Memphis. It is raw and unfiltered and powered by the sheer joy of the music. The vocals and harp work of Blind Mississippi Morris also invigorate this disc. The band stands rock solid behind him giving him that solid foundation to soar from, they achieve that delicate balance of strong support without getting in his way. The band has written 12 of the 13 cuts on the album and they stand up to hard listening. Some of the songs have that necessary 'feel' to become classic benchmark blues numbers. Listen to Hurry
Sundown and Hwy17 and they have that quality of unfamiliar familiarity. The band also does a strong job on Willie Dixon's Built for Comfort, with a nice arrangement by Brad Webb, who handles the guitar and slide guitar work on the disc. There is good production work done here as the sound holds the bands strong, primitive sound without straying into the cheap or fuzzy. A very strong outing makes me look forward to more from the group.