Good review from www.blues.about.com:

"Like the blind men and the elephant, casual listeners can assume Robillard is all about jump blues, or jazz, or R&B, or whatever particular segment of his great love for blues-based forms they’ve happened to hear. This year, with the release of Low Down and Tore Up, Robillard is focusing on the hard-driving gutbucket blues styles of the mid-to-late 1950s, as exemplified by such greats as Guitar Slim, Eddie Taylor, Elmore James, Sugar Boy Crawford, and Pee Wee Crayton. Robillard covers material by each of these, and a few others.

The first thing to notice about this record is the devastatingly perfect sound of it. Robillard and his touring band, augmented by a couple of ex-members who dropped in for the session, just went into the studio and played live, recording the entire album in the space of a couple days. Producer/engineer Jack Gauthier has a paragraph in the liner notes detailing the specifics of microphone placement which led to this particularly exciting sonic blend. We may not understand exactly what he means, but listening to the results, there is no question that Gauthier knows how to make a blues band explode out of the speakers.

With playing this good, and a band this energized, and songs, most of them fairly unknown to all but the most ardent collectors, well worth hearing, Duke Robillard has added another enjoyable piece to his life-long musical puzzle."

Personally I like everything that I have heard from Duke Robillard. He has a way of playing and composing songs that is pure quality. Here he had made covers on old rock and blues songs and he gets away even with that.

1)Quicksand (8,0) Inspired vocals and crazy sax, guitar and pianoplaying in this heavy blues.

2)Trainfare home (7,5) A little too messy but fun and wild shuffle.

3)Mercy mercy mama (7,0) A standard blues.

4)Overboard (5,0) Totally insane! Too much.

5)Blues after hours (7,5) Slow and instrumental blues with delicate piano- and guitarplaying.

6)Want ad blues (6,0) Monotone heavy blues.

7)Do unto others (7,0)

8)It's alright (8,0) Wonderful slow blues.

9)Let me play with your poodle (7,5)

10)Tool bag boogie (7,0) Instrumental.

11)What's wrong (7,0)

12)I ain't mad at you (7,0)

13)The 12 year old boy (7,0)

14)Later for you baby (7,0)

Score: 7,04

Duke Robillard (Michael John Robillard)-vocals and guitars (b.1948)

Brad Hallen-bass

Mark Teixeira-drums and vocals on 4.

Bruce Bears-piano

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Matt McCabe-piano

Sax Gordon-saxophone

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