The first ten seconds one wonders: hey, was this an upbeat? Or a downbeat? Or, in layman’s words: where do I tap my foot? I love this, the trick sets a tone that raises expectations. And yes, ‘7th Child Of A 7th Son’, the first track, sort of offers a preview of the whole cd: blues inspired rock with a singer who adds soul to the guitar riffs. And there’s no shortage of those. Riffs, I mean, and track two, ‘A Mortal Man’, only goes to show: not just a riff, but one with intelligent time changes in between. So this raises the first question again: how come my foot is tapping the wrong way? A question however that becomes superfluous when, towards the end of the song, the whole band stops and the accompaniment is taken over for a considerable time by a single six string guitar that turns it into a simple…song, which is what it is. Personally I like this approach because it puts the song into perspective while it is playing. It’s as if the band makes an inversion, starting out from the arrangement, ‘going back’ (so to speak) to the first draft. We’re more used to the opposite: a song starting out from the acoustic level, gradually going to the whole band, as it happens, like with ‘What I Know’ for instance. ‘I’ve Come To Rock And Roll’ seems to be the key phrase of this album, of course, followed in the song by “…but all I sing is the blues”, although musically (like I said before) this is more of a rock album. ’15 Different Ways’ stands out on this cd. The song is played on a six string acoustic folk guitar, played in an easy way while Buck-Nasty starts out with an almost-talking blues, spiced up with some howls and hollers. The old fashioned blues lover is met with a powerful rendition of John Lee Hookers ‘Boom Boom’. The cd ends with a gospel-like ‘I Need A Healin’, one can imagine that this might be an sensational closing number for their live act, turning the place upside down.