Eric Bibb: Deeper in the Well – review

(Dixiefrog/Discovery)Eric Bibb is such a genial, easy-going performer that it's easy to overlook his importance. One of the finest black American exponents of acoustic blues, he was brought up in New York (where his father, Leon, played a key role in the radical 50s folk scene) but spent much of his life in Scandinavia. Now he has travelled to Louisiana to expand his range to include Creole and country influences, with a set that has the slinky, rhythmic charm of JJ Cale. Bibb's understated guit...

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