This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
When venerable blues guitarist Jimmy Rogers died while making this album, it turned from a star-studded CD into a posthumous tribute.
And a high-wattage one at that: Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and even Canuck six-stringer Jeff Healey are just some of the rock and blues legends who showed up at these laid-back, informal sessions to trade verses and licks with Rogers on classics like John Lee Hooker’s Boom Boom or his own Sweet Home Chicago. My fave moment: When the numerically challenged Stephen Stills sings, “Two and two are four / Four and four are six.” Ah well, still and all, it adds up to an electrifying homage to the man who reportedly introduced the electric guitar to Chicago blues.
