"These guys have recorded with everyone from Howlin' Wolf to Buddy Guy, but this album manages to sound steadfastly unique. The Bluesmen favor acoustic instruments in a band setting: Their intricate guitars plink and plunk around every beat, creating a swirling effect somewhere between hens at a cockfight and a mellow Frank Zappa jam. This is not a Mississippi rusty-tractor record — it's Chicago, and the blues' sibling, jazz, lurks in the background. Some of these blues have a jump beat, like Hunt's "Pick No Cotton"; harmonicist Frank Scott's "American Bluesmen" is a lighthearted theme song. Robinson is the deep-voiced one in the crowd, and his "I Was Wrong" is so disturbing that you're relieved not knowing what has made him moan like this and ask forgiveness. Young bucks beware: experienced head-cutters have entered the joint." —Robert Gordon, Rolling Stone Magazine