Hard Times

The Hoodoo Kings were a short-lived supergroup featuring three veteran blues eccentrics: John Lee Hooker collaborator Eddie Kirkland, one-armed harmonica player Neal Pattman, and Florida harp player Rock Bottom. This project attempted to capture raw, unpolished juke-joint blues with modern recording fidelity. The blues connection is absolute: it's a collision of Kirkland's distorted, aggressive guitar style with Pattman's Piedmont-style harmonica, proving that raw, country-blues energy could still be captured in a 21st-century studio. [Session details unverified.]