Reviews for "House Rockin' and Blues Shoutin'!"
Living Blues Nov. and Dec. 2007 Chart--"House Rockin' and Blues Shoutin'!"
"FIVE HATS! "packed with outstanding live blues . . . . incredible. It's good to know the old time blues can still be found out there." Dirk Wissbaum - Big City Blues - Aug-Sept 2007
"a most wonderful CD. As good a compilation as I have ever heard. . . . It will work over any blues occasion, and the later the day, the better it sounds." Blue Barry - Smoky Mountain Blues Society - Oct 2007
"One of the best I've heard for a while . . . not a false note on this CD, and there's more fun than people should be allowed to have when they have to pay for it." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Sept 12, 2007
Rating 10! "A stomping set of live blues." Mick Rainsford - Blues in Britain
These great players have "torn it up and ripped it down, bringing down home to downtown...every shade of blues vibrates with azurous intensity from electric Chicago and West Coast swing to Texas boogie and Memphis grind. This is some tasty stuff." Dr. Blues CD Reviews - Long Island Blues Society - Nov 26, 2007
This disc offers performances from the Rhythm Room that "often blister with the same intense heat as the desert swelter outside of the air-conditioned blues oasis."
Dennis Rozanski - Baltimore Blues Society's Bluesrag - September 2007
"makes you want to head for Phoenix immediately and maybe catch some of these people in concert."
Ron Wynn - Nashville City Paper
“a lively celebration . . . Blue Witch is to be thanked for this collection.”
Ron Weinstock - inabluemood.blogspot.com
"a wonderful collection of live performances at the famed Rhythm Room in Phoenix."
Phil Whipple - Maine Blues Society - Sept/Oct 2007
“It's blues at its best, performed live and in front of a crowd, raw and buttons loose.”
da bookman - musicforamerica.org
“House Rockin contains . . . blues in its finest form with some of the top purveyors of the art form.”
Charlie B. Dahan - allaboutjazz.com
“a gratifying release – a fine addition to the collection of any blues lover and a great introduction to the blues for first time listeners. Highest recommendation” Jim Shortt - The Scene, Sept 2007
“incendiary performances from an array of blues greats.” Rob Lehrian - Supporting The Blues
"Dive in." Mark Keresman - Phoenix New Times - Sept 20, 2007
"keeping live blues going" with "solid production quality. House Rockin' Blues Shoutin' does justice to the performances captured here." Dave Ruthenberg - Living Blues - Oct, 2007