Singer Chris Bad News Barnes comes with a fine selection of a kind of blues that in old times was called ‘Hokum Blues’, a style that became popular thanks to musicians like Tampa Red, Georgia Tom Dorsey, Big Bill Broonzy (these three ones known as The Hokum Boys), Jazz Gillum or Washboard Sam among other great representatives of this old and wonderful style, popular during the depression years, that used to display on a quite explicit way topics like sex, prostitution, gambling, drugs, homosexuality and other issues considered as immoral or even subversive Along the whole recording Barnes gives us with a huge reliability, free and easy but at the same time respectful way all that feeling and the image of 20’s and 30’s, with that old festive sound, as well as the atmosphere and the natural rhythm of those blues, but always from a very actual perspective To do so he has selected a group of musicians who have accurately understood the sense, background and good vibrations Barnes was looking for this album, as Jimmy Vivino on guitar, Bette Sussman on piano, Steve Guyger on harmonica, Will Lee on bass and Shawn Pelton on drums, plus a horn section in some tracks with Steve Bernstein on trumpet, Charlie Pillow on sax and clarinet and Clark Gayton on trombone, as well as some backing vocals which fill the repertoire with a subtle elegance