During Covid confinement, singer and harmonica player Ronnie Owens spent time listening to some of his band Li’l Ronnie & The Grand Dukes’ old live shows recordings. One of them belonged to a 2005 concert. It was very well recorded and had an excellent sound too. At that time the band counted with the excellent sound technician and producer Jerry Hall, one of the best professionals of the time, who had worked at Motown Records and, thanks to his professional work, these recordings got an impressive quality. There should have been released on Jerry Hall’s own label, Pacific Blues, but Jerry suddenly passed away, so the project was forgotten.

Now Ronnie has rescued it to the delight of blues lovers who look for the best music, because the album is really impressive. Eight fantastic songs have been selected from that concert, respecting the same order they were played live, plus three bonus tracks recorded on studio. The band included Ronnie Owens on vocals and harmonica, Robert Frahm on guitar, John Fralin on piano and organ, Bryan Smith on bass and George Sheppard on drums, all them great musicians and amazing blues masters, a language they perfectly know and totally control.

It is a real pleasure to savor and enjoy these eleven juicy attractive dishes, full of a very special fragrance and quality, where the best blues prevail and shine at really high level.