Studebaker John’s Maxwell Street Kings

Studebaker John’s Maxwell Street Kings: That’s The Way You Do

by Nic Jones
December 9, 2010

For every facially-contorted string-bender, it sometimes feels like there's a performer who knows the blues on another level; with this release, Studebaker John Grimaldi is one of them. He takes his cues from the Chicago blues in general and from the likes of J.B. Hutto and Hound Dog Taylor in particular. He lives and breathes the primitive sophistication of those artists and the evidence of it is all over this disc, while his band takes its name from that city's ...