Audio CD review:
Popa Chubby - Stealing the Devil's Guitar

Popa Chubby - Stealing the Devil's Guitar

Band: Popa Chubby Title: Stealing the Devil's Guitar Rating: Release Date: 09 May, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Slide Devil Man Slide 2: Smugglers Game 3: Back In My Baby's Arms 4: Right On 5: In This World 6: Kinda Dicey 7: Young Guns 8: Buffalo Chips 9: Long Deep Hard And Wide 10: Why I Can't Have You 11: Virgil And Smokey 12: Preacher Man 13: The Devil's Guitar

Editoral Review The New York City singer/axe-mangler keeps things rolling at a heart-thumping pace by one-upping Satan on "Slide Devil Man Slide" and the jazz-inflected instrumental "The Devil's Guitar," running drugs in "Smuggler's Game," and cranking the steel-on-steel peal of six-string slide to the max. Excitement doesn't come cheap, and Popa Chubby gets it every way he can in these 13 eclectic songs. But he makes time for soul, too, plunging into the funky old-school R&B of "Back in My Baby's Arms" and covering Mississippi hill country matriarch Jessie Mae Hemphill's prayerful "Lord, Help the Poor and Needy" (retitled here "In the World"). Toss in the blues-rocker "Long Deep Hard and Wide" and the acoustic bluegrass thriller "Buffalo Chips"--where Chubby blazes through a sweet and breezy melody on mandolin, Dobro, and guitar--and you've got the full profile of an artist whose talent is even bigger than his considerable girth. --Ted Drozdowski .. You can see a complete list of all Popa Chubby discography, or go back to the Popa Chubby tabs