Friends (Eric Bibb)

Independent shop in BallardDirections

Available from Light in the Attic Records when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Friends is the accurate and revealing title for New York Bluesman Eric Bibb’s tenth album since 1997. The cuts here feature rootsy folk and blues collaborations with different ‘friends’ in differering small group settings. The set starts with a killer accoustic slide duet between Bibb and Guy Davis on the nugget ‘99 1/2 Won’t Do’. The control between Davis’ sweet and smoky delivery and Bibb’s husky wail – akin to Blind Willie Johnson’s in places – offers a double-sided dimension in interpretatio