There has been a lot of excitement and hype around this four-piece band our of Portland, Oregon, and the storming opener, with its jazzy feel, driving rhythm, cool vocals, accomplished harp break (from guest Big Al Blake) and overall professionalism could not come from anywhere other than America’s West Coast. This groove continues throughout the album, with the occasional slow Blues adding variety to the early rhythm & blues sound of the likes of Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s ‘Broke And Lonely’ and Little Richard’s big sounding Blues-ballad ‘Directly From My Heart To You’. The originals – from the pen of leader Vyasa Dodson, whose vocals sometimes recall vintage Peter Green – are, generally, in the same mode… and yet, for me, the band doesn’t quite live up to the hype on this, their second album. There is so much good Blues coming out of California and the surroundings these days that it takes a great deal to be distinctive. This sounds a little formulaic, and, in one or two places, I did think of a sub-Little Charlie & The Nite Cats. Not necessarily  a bad thing at all, but maybe I had been led to expect something a little more.