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Reborn in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and recently moved to Kansas City, Rooster Blues Records has long preserved the ever vital Delta blues legacy with winning CDs by obscure backwoods blues stars. With this colorful compilation CD, Rooster Blues showcases its roster of regional jook-joint artists, whose music resonates with voices and guitar licks of blues greats past. Most notable among them are James "Super Chikan" Johnson, whose darkly sardonic "Down in the Delta" refocuses the country blues idiom with style and stark wit; "Philadelphia" Jerry Ricks, whose "James Alley Blues" betrays his many years' playing with such revered bluesmen as Son House, Skip James, Furry Lewis, and Bukka White; and, of particular importance, the little-recorded and recently deceased Lonnie Pitchford, mentored by Robert Johnson stepson Robert Jr. Lockwood --Alan Greenberg