Really impressive, John Alex Mason is a very young singer and guitar player who passionately and respectfully devotes himself to play the music he loves and, when I say passionately, I mean he gives his full attention to what he is doing Mason feels music and specially the blues with conviction and honestry He sings Delta blues on the path of the old hollers and he does it with real love and devotion Seven of the fifteen songs included on town & Country are Mason’s own compositions The rest belong to genuine songsters tradition, like were Robert Johnson or Charley Patton John Alex has chosen electric and National Style O guitars, together with a ‘foot drums’ to emphatize the songs tempos with his foot and give some percussion strength to his repertoire The cd also investigates into the ‘afro roots music’ past and present, from the point of view of an extremely young acoustic blues musician who loves and already knows race folk music, not only Delta blues but also Piedmont and even Hill Country Blues, a non popular kind of music but really interesting and really important You are facing a good professional musician who is facing a very interesting future Discover and enjoy the hypnotic, dancing, sometimes sad John Alex Mason blues