Aki Kumar is a new value who seems to be on the rise, at least this is what can be heard among the blues circles where he usually moves, specially in San Francisco Bay area, where this young singer and harmonica player born in Bombay, India has established his headquarters Aki Kumar belongs to the new generation of blues musicians which are growing in leaps and bounds, who show a huge and strong passion for the blues Mr Kumar is now a real master of fifties Chicago sound He is deeply anchored in the musical tradition of Little Walter, James Cotton or Walter Horton This album fulfils a dream he has been pursuing since 2009 In Don’t Hold Back, Aki Kumar and his musicians (among them you can find such great names like guitar players Kid Andersen and Rusty Zinn or piano player Bob Welsh), show a boundless passion in each and every one of the thirteen songs that complete the cd, and they do it with a frenzied wild and spontaneous attitude, that will surprise more than one by the easy way they move along this musical genre we deeply love, which is the blues of all times and aspects