If you look on a map, Highway 61 takes you all the way from Minnesota down to Louisiana. This album by guitarist/singer Lew Jetton covers the bottom half of the chart, with some Southern hospitality in the blues with Sam Moore/g-voc, Dan Bell/key-g-b, Erik Eicholtz/dr, Greg Walker/b, Fred Hoover-Bob Lohr/key, JD Wilkes/harm and a couple other guests on this road kill of a highway cruiser.
The Strats are cruising like a V8 on energy pieces likle “Two Lane Road” and the crunchy upbeat “Getting Colder” while the strings moan and wail on the Lone Star blueser “Mexico” and the boogie-ing “Homegrown Tomato”. Jetton’s voice is rough and ready, cutting through the Humming organ on the spoking “State Line Blues” while the rhythm team gets funky on “Who’s Texting You” and the piano wails on “SandyLee”. Wilkes’ harmonica wails on the shuffling “Tatoo Blues”. A trip to the rural part of the Texas panhandle brings you to coffee stop blues rock on “Waffle House Woman” and the VFW gets low lights for “Will I Go To Hell”. Tex mex flavors of the road.