Kid Ramos shines brightly on all seven tracks he appears on. Non- pareils include a mellow reworking of the Big Joe Turner/ Pete Johnson boogie era classic “Wee Baby Blues” (with his fretwork subbing for Johnson’s piano quite effectively) along with the oldies alchemy created by his reverb-heavy guitar and the greasy horn and piano add-ons by Ron Dziubla on the Moonglows atmospheric “I’m Sorry” and a couple of cuts composed by bongos player Richard Duran—the irrepressibly witty “You’re A Pain (with Carl Leyland tickling the ivories) and the harp shuffle “Across The Sea.”

Finger-picking genius Fletcher joins the endlessly inventive Slim on two selections—Clifton Chenier’s bayou boogie “All Night Long” that also showcases the feisty mandolin work of Rich Delgrasso and the laidback soliloquy “You Never Cried For Me” (another one by Duran) that features Slim on cocktail jazz-tinged flute and a nicely concentric Fletcher solo near the close. The Wheelchair Man calls to give his nod to a luminous, sax and bongo accented redo of Duke Ellington’s lazy “ Nothin ’ But The Blues” and a Django Reinhardt-styled arrangement of the Gershwin chestnut “Me, Myself And I,” highlighted by the razor-sharp twin guitar playing of Jeff Ross and Gonzalo Bergara .

Another spell-weaving, memorable release for the enterprising Delta Groove imprint. Love the title.