Midwest Record
June 5, 2010

Granted it’s a Chicago thing, but how did Alligator let this slip through their fingers?  The youngest of 28 kids from a Mississippi  farm, Champion certainly had the chutzpah not to want to live in dirt and rough it when he could harp his way out.  Solidly, smack dab in the middle of the blues tradition, he does some slight of hand to make this right for whitey’s ears, but it’s the real deal throughout.  With youthful vigor powered by a desire not to go back to farming, Champion lives up to his name.  This is a wily, smoking set of real blues that’s authentic without that unvarnished old school thing.  It’s like he grew up listening to Willie Mitchell’s non-Al Green sides.  You’re gonna love this as it throws away all the blues clichés and leaves you the real meat.  A winner throughout.

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