Roy Rogers - Chops Not Chaps (1985)

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The albums starts on two wheels with the gun shot bang of a killer rock version of Robert Johnson's “32/20 Blues” with Rogers playing slide at an unbelievable speed without loosing control one half second. Hard to recognize the original from Robert Johnson but the iconic rambling Delta bluesman most have felt serious jolt in his grave, all the more serious that there's three more of his songs coming, in the same vein !

Yet if Rogers revisits Delta classics with such energetic virtuosity, this album is clearly a Delta Blues one as confirmed by the three additional Johnson's numbers  (“Judgment Day”, “Terraplane Blues” and “Kindhearted Woman”) and two from Skip James (“Devil Got My Woman”) and Elmore James (“Shake Your Moneymaker”). Rogers also included four exciting self-penned originals : “Hot To Trot/Ready To Go”, “Guilty Of Lovin' You”, “Feel So Blue” and “One More Time”.