Don Cavalli:
Cryland

By: Dennis Cook The blues don't reside only in the American South or Chicago or any other fixed locale. Giving the mercurial fluidity of ideas and sounds in 2008, it makes perfect sense that a rumbling blues stalwart could arise just about anywhere, even France. Don Cavalli struts out with the swampy invitation of "Gloom Uprising," and from the start The Don hooks us with a sharp, grappling cry somewhere between Rev. Gary Davis and Tony Joe White. It is immediate and strong and remains so ...

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