Davis’s sixth album for leading roots label Redhouse is an extremely enjoyable and varied collection of six originals and inspired covers from the likes of Leadbelly, Son House, Willie Dixon, Big Joe Williams and Bob Dylan. Davis is a fine singer and accomplished on harmonica, banjo, mandolin, six- and twelve-string and bottleneck guitar.

He has become a leading exponent of American acoustic country blues with occasional forays into ragtime and jugband music. Throughout the album, it’s the powerful pulse of Davis’s acoustic finger-picking that drives things along, whether it’s within the context of a small band setting or a solo acoustic setting like the twelve-string guitar on a version of Leadbelly’s field holler Ain’t Going Down or the gentle and whimsical Steamboat Captain, with its beautiful guitar picking .