Blues -- Two by Hawkeye Herman
"Everyday Living" (Topaz Productions) Iowan "Hawkeye" Herman won a Handy Award for "Keeping the Blues Alive" and is well known in the Midwestern States. He plays very nice resonator slide guitar and acoustic blues. His voice transforms most tunes into folk as opposed to blues, but on this first disk -- "Everyday Living" -- he joins up with Charles Brown and "Cool Papa" Sadler to settle into a good blues groove. Others he carries off pretty well, throwing in a novelty tune or two. Most tunes fine for morning or afternoon mix. B+"It's All Blues" (Topaz Productions) The second Disc -- "It's All Blues" -- is more pop and folk than blues. Not my cup of tea, but nice guitar work and his stuff is entertaining enough for most of a folk bent. B-
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