Fantastic Fench singer and harmonica player Nico Wayne Toussaint comes back into the music scene with a strong powerful album He has done it under a very personal conception, developing a creative sophisticated Chicago blues, perfect for the actual times Of course, he does not lose the essence and roots of that classic strong and powerful sound of the late 40’s brought from Mississippi emigration by musicians like Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter or the predecessor and king of this style, Muddy Waters Nico belongs to the new generation of French blues, since he was born in 1973 in Toulon When he was only eighteen, he began to feel interested in harmonica, after listening to Muddy Waters’ album Hard Again with James Cotton on harmonica, who became his first great influence Lonely Number is a forceful effective work, where Nico shows his full potential as well as his artistic and stylistic maturity The musicians who back him are a real machine, a true engine perfect to develop the solid work of this intense mature blower There are superb appearances of some guest musicians like Dave Maxwell and Mr Boogie Woogie on piano, JP Soars, Guy Davis and Monster Mike Welch on guitars or Rod Piazza on harmonica