Personnel: Ronnie Earl - guitar Dave Limina - organ/piano Jimmy Mouradian - bass Lorne Entress - drums Track Listings 1. Eddie's Gospel Groove 2. Bobby's Bop 3. Blues for the West Side 4. I Am with You 5. Katrina Blues 6. Wolf Dance 7. Kay My Dear 8. Blues for the Homeless 9. Beautiful Child 10. Blues for Otis Rush 11. New Gospel Tune Recorded and filmed live (with a separate DVD forthcoming) in the studio before an audience at Wellspring Sound in Acton, MA in April of 2007. His last few albums have included guest vocalists and other instrumental guests but here we have the unadorned Ronnie – just his guitar with his regular trio: Dave Limina, Jimmy Mouradian and Lorne Entress on organ/piano, bass and drums, in an intimate, live-in-the-studio setting, showing how and why he has maintained his status as one of blues’ most popular guitarists. His limpid, fluid solos are not constrained by three-minute limits here and you’ll be amazed at his inventiveness all over again. This also gives him the room to display some Buddy Guy-like dynamics with his solos ranging from the almost inaudible to full flight in the course of his journey. Earl has used this setting in the past for excursions into jazz but the forms here are almost all blues. You’ll recognize some of the themes from earlier albums but the improvising makes this a most welcome addition to his discography. The set list is imaginatively broken up at the halfway point by an acoustic guitar solo. Seventy-eight minutes