1. Intro - 0:26
2. Born Under A Bad Sign - 3:02
3. Goin Down The Road - 4:07
4. Roll Away Jam - 2:18
5. High Rollin - 3:03
6. Framed - 3:04
7. Give Me Back My Wig - 3:27
8. Long Way From Home - 4:01
9. Soul Fire - 3:08
10. In My Life - 3:20
11. Hit and Run - 2:30
12. Smooth Like That - 2:00
13. Bakersfield Blues - 3:18
14. Bad Luck Messin With Me - 3:36
15. The Mornin Worship Shuffle - 2:26
16. Shake It - 3:02

Brother Yusef: guitar, vocals and ankle tambourine.

A Live Solo Blues performance. A little Slide Guitar with some Chicago-Mississippi-Texas-West Coast Swing finger picking, all mixed up in a fattback flavored stew. ---cdbaby.com

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1. Let The Good Times Roll
2. My Baby's Lovin' Someone Else
3. Power Of The Blues
4. Get Outta Town
5. Sweet Woman Tonite
6. A Little Front Porch Thang
7. Cigar Box & Coffee Can Blues
8. Big Daddy
9. Jesus On My Mind
10. Hey There Blues
11. Johnny B. Goode
12. This Little Light Of Mine
13. Hoochie Coochie Man
14. Back At The Crossroads

Brother Yusef: guitar, vocals. cigar box guitar
Robert Hilton: washboard, harmonica, 3 stringed coffee can, single stringed paint drum 
Keith Crenshaw: drums, percussion, background shouts & comments

Live recording featuring guitar, drums and a washboard, with a few homemade instruments thrown in. A true roots experiment.

One of the greatest of the not-yet-famous players, Brother Yusef is from Bakersfield, California, a place better known for Country music than blues. For some reason his career has never quite taken off, although he is one of the best talents in the genre. With an exuberant, highly rhythmic beat and a wildly flailing slide, the dreadlocked brother chugs and stomps the blues with impassioned devotion.

He has 5 or so seemingly self-produced CDs out and he is an excellent slide player and fingerpicker, with a strong singing voice. Indeed, he sings wonderfully, which adds to the full, rich sound, which he likes to call “fatt-back”, a term not off target.

This guy has it all going, with real verve and spark. His renditions of the old classic blues are delivered with a funky, deep-roots style that will make anyone sit up and listen. Brother Yusef is ready for the big time and one hot player.

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01. Get Outta Town Blues 3:39
02. Blues Is My Story 4:35 
03. Ife's Blues 2:38
04. Power Of The Blues 3:32
05. Love & The Blues 4:13 
06. Back At The Crossroads 3:45
07. Bottom Blues 3:06
08. Shoes Of Another Man 4:37
09. Freedom Train Blues 5:16 
10. What's Up Blues 3:59
11. Bakersfield Blues 3:01
12. Sweet Woman Tonite 5:16 
13. Lucky Thirteen Blues 2:07

Personnel: 
Brother Yusef (guitar); 
Jon Bullock (drums);
Martin Crowe (harmonica).

Brother Yusef is a master of traditional slide guitar, as well as a uniquely passionate vocalist. He remembers first hearing the call of the Blues as young child attending church with this grandparents in Bakersfield, CA. The raw and intense emotions in church left a lasting impression which he carried with him into other music genres. At age 19 Brother Yusef picked up a guitar and began experimenting with reggae, r&b and jazz. He found himself at a musical crossroads in 1989 when he went to the Bakersfield church of his childhood, to pay this last respects at his grandfather's funeral. A soloist there began picking out a soothing church hymn on guitar, connecting Yusef to his grandfather, elders and ancestors in the rich tradition of the blues.

Brother Yusef has gained recognition from audiences and musicians throughout the Los Angeles and Orange County area for his range of sounds and emotions -sadness, joy, anger and laughter. He keeps "one foot in the past and one in the present", by combining "traditional" finger picking and slide guitar playing with the contemporary feel of urban blues. Audiences love the full sound of his solo performances (he uses his right hand thumb to beat out a percussive bass-line and shuffle, while the index finger plays rhythm and lead lines); and musicians nicknamed him "Fatback" or "Fatt-Back Bluesman", for his intense playing and vocal style. ---cdbaby.com

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