JOHN LONG "LOST & FOUND" Source: Evansville Couier-Press Date: 04/2006 Writer: NA

He may not be so young anymore, but he is still the best. But it isn't the fact that Long has made a career of 30-plus years without a proper record release until now that is so amazing. It is the music. Long is a musical time machine. Listening to his music is like putting on an old pre-war country blues record and letting the good times roll. Long so immersed himself in the sounds of such blues masters as Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James, Tampa Red and Lonnie Johnson that he is capable of writing, playing and singing absolutely authentic blues and still sounding contemporary and fresh.

There is no modern spin here, no hip-hop beats, no irony, no watering down with rock cliches. This is the blues as only somebody who has backed Muddy Waters at acoustic gigs and who has learned at the feet of the great "Homesick" James Williamson can deliver.