I must confess I am a Mannish Boys fan, so it is difficult for me to be impartial as, once again, their new album has really touched me to the deepest part of my heart Big Plans follows the path of their two previous albums, with an excellent vintage sound and a bunch of musicians who know what they want to do and have got the real ‘sound’ and ‘beat’ They perfectly control shuffles and low-down dirty blues, and they perform them with a deep wild but, at the same time, unpretentious feeling This time The Mannish Boys include such bright musicians like Finis Tasby, Johnny Dyer, Randy Chorkoff, Paris Slim, Kid Ramos, Kirk ‘Eli’ Fletcher, Leon Blue, Tom Leavery and Richard Innes If all these names were not enough, you will also find Jody Williams, Rick Holmstrom, Mitch Kashmar, Rob Rio or Larry Taylor as guest musicians A very pleasing cd, blues lovers should never forget