Although he played guitar, harmonica and violin, singer James ‘Yank’ Rachell (1910-1997) was known and respected as one of the most important mandolin blues players and, together with Johnny Young, they became one of the Chicago blues forerunners musicians Anyway, Yank Rachell was for a long time a simple Sleepy John Estes’ backing musician, regularly working for him during the thirties, after he left Hambone Willie Newbern, a very popular songster of Brownsville, Tennessee area Newbern introduced him to Hammie Nixon and John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson, he often worked with, besides Sleepy John Estes, on a fruitful musical relationship along the twenties The cd includes a good bunch of musicians who have met to pay homage to Rachell’s legacy You will find among them John Sebastian, David Grisman, Tim O’brien, David Grier or Rich DelGrosso Twenty one acoustic and electric songs complete this superb tribute to one of the great masters of blues history