Delbert McClinton
On his first new album in four years, Texas-bred blues-rocker McClinton flips through his Filofax and enlists top-drawer talent like Lyle Lovett, Patty Loveless and Bekka Bramlett. Everyone is at peak form here, with vocalist Bramlett (Delaney & Bonnie's daughter) matching ol' Del note for note on the honky-tonk cooker "Old Weakness." McClinton evokes the moody, swamp-rock feel of John Fogerty on "Somebody to Love You." But it's an uncorked rocker like "Monkey Around," with some nasty (as in fine) slide-guitar work by Lee Roy Parnell, that tells us why, when Del calls, friends come running. (Rising Tide)
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