Those of you who are familiar with this musician surely know he is not properly a bluesman, although among his influences you will certainly find emotional powerful Afroamerican roots music, not only in his main musical concepts but also in different stylistic nuances The first cd gives us a naked stark Whitley, with no backing instruments, only his guitar and voice, recorded live with no alternative takes Weed follows the same path and was conceived under the similar musical patterns Both are very poetic intimist albums but, at the same time, very hard ones without any kind of superfluous sophistication Only bottleneck performed with tempo and floor foot knocking rhythm Chris is a real songster who gives us a work made from his inner perspective with no commercial purposes