An all-time classic
H. E. Syrett | Menlo Park, CA United States | 04/16/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I first heard and bought this album on vinyl back in the early 1960s. It opened my eyes and ears to the connections between jazz (Hendricks was in the hit trio Lambert, Hendricks and Ross), gospel (check the killer version of "That's Enough" by Hannah Dean) and all forms of the blues, from acoustic to big-band. I was too young to get into night clubs, and too far north to hear "race radio". How else was I to know that Jimmy Reed, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin and Dinah Washington were all part of one great family of American music? Everything on here is still valid today."