Elvin Bishop - Juke Joint Jump • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

The band is tighter than it was on its previous Capricorn LP, and the references lean a bit more to blues and soul sounds. There are only two true R&B tracks here: "Calling All Cows," an old Excello label song with subtle sexual connotations and a romping Bo Diddley beat, and John Lee Hooker's "Crawling King Snake," with blatant connotations. It's done here in ominous swirls — it'd be a good soundtrack tune for a movie called "The Hook Meets Shaft."

There are several country-tinged numbers, such as "Rollin' Home," a mellow talking/singing blues about the joys of getting off the road and on your woman. But the blues pop in when Elvin throws in a verse from the Chicago classic "Close
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