Andy Cohen is a master of blues roots. He has devoted all his life to preserve and study old time blues music and this album perfectly reflects his classic traditional style. Gifted with an exquisite sensitivity and taste, Andy gives us a selected varied fifteen songs collection, backed by his acoustic guitar, ‘dulceola’ or piano on Meade Luz Lewis’ “Honky Tonk Train”, and even his wife Larkin Bryant plays the mandolin and sings on some tracks. Andy performs with great love, honesty and delivery, songs like “Built Right On The Ground”, originally recorded in 1931 by Saint Louis coming musician Teddy Darby, Sam McGee’s “Railroad Blues”, the impressive “Cairo Blues” -an eleven bars (not twelve) song made popular in 1929 by Henry Spaulding-, “Soo Cow Soo” well known by Memphis Minnie, a characteristic down-home farm blues, that talks about animals like chickens, rabbits, mules, horses, bees, snakes, cats… or a long list of compositions coming from Jimmie Rodgers, Jelly Roll Morton or Jim Brewer among others. A wonderful album based on blues, songsters, rags, honky-tonk and boogie-woogie. It is a priceless trip to last century twenties and thirties south, driven by a true ‘connoisseur’ like Andy Cohen is.