Sunday Night Blues Project (Blog)
July 23, 2010

If you are a fan of good acoustic guitar music, this new disc by Andy Cohen is very good. Cohen only writes one original song here–his style is, like Steve Howell, to find and play good songs that deserve resurrecting. Many of these songs are from the 1920s and 1930s. “Built Right On The Ground” is almost completely a solo effort–Cohen plays guitar on all tracks, and piano on two songs, and dolceola on one track. He is joined by his wife Larkin Bryant on vocal and mandolin on 2 songs, and Kurt Anderson on vocals and guitar on 2 more. The playing and singing here is absolutely stellar–it reminds me of Doc Watson in that from song to song it’s either blues or country or ragtime or blues again. Every note here is good music, that’s for sure. My favorite tracks here are “Mopper’s Blues,” a Big Bill Broonzy cover, and the Bobby Charles song “Tennessee Blues.”

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