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He spent two decades supporting John Lee Hooker's idiosyncratic boogie blues, and here Eddie Kirkland struck out on his own. It's his first and still his best exercise; raw, thumping, throbbing music that didn't leave the blues out of the R and B---especially "Train Done Gone" and "Man of Stone," the latter a number John Mayall would cover on "Crusade" in an affectionate if too-reverent cover. Kirkland turned out to have a heavily emotional singing style to match his shuddering guitar work and his crying harmonica here and there. With King Curtis behind the board and leading the recording aggregation (not to mention blowing some blood-curdling sax here and there) Kirkland launched his solo life with a flourish. It's a shame that this didn't catch as much fire as other offerings of the period, because Kirkland obviously had plenty enough to offer. Match this to his comeback albums on Trix in the 1970s and his scattered King and Fortune sides during the Hooker years, and you've got a very respectable legacy of very underrated blues. Kirkland's death in a February 2011 road accident was a loss; he never quit hitting the road screaming the blues, even if he recorded few sides afterward that were as powerful as these.