good music, but not real authentic

When you first hear this album, you're almost blown away by the musical quality and the talent of the musicians involved. Johnny is obviously an excellent guitarist. It's rather dissapointing, however, upong examination of each of the song credits. Johnny sings on all the tracks, and plays on all of them, but the material on the record just isn't his. He's more like the poster boy for the record companies and all of the other extremely talented musicians on the album. When you're singing the blues, one of the most important things is that it comes from your soul, and the words your sing are your own. That's where the raw emotion comes from. You can't simulate that kind of thing no matter how you market it.

Good ol' raw blues

Jonny Lang did a wonderful job on this disc. If you want to buy the best of Jonny, get his early discs as he has wandered into pop/eclectic music now which is a shame and a sin. I suspect large money offers swayed him from his true roots.

Raw Emotion

I bought this several years ago as a cassette. Love at first hear. I was looking for young blues singers and I hit a jackpot with Jonny Lang. His voice is wrought with raw emotion...unusual with a young singer. I thought he was much older than his years. Not long after buying this cassette, I had to buy his next one. I just recently replaced all my Jonny Lang cassettes with CDs, and can't emphasize enough that this CD is a MUST for blues fans.