Mississippi Blues {original title: Crazy Cajun Recordings} (2010)

"This 2010 issue is not a new album, it is a complete repackage of the album entitled "The Crazy Cajun Recordings" (1999). The material dates from 1973 and 1977, recorded with the famed Huey P. Meaux (aka the Crazy Cajun) when he wasnt touring with Clifton Chenier. These 20 tracks range from Landreths Lafayette, LA-styled take on the acoustic Delta blues solo and with a band that included a mandolin player, an electric bassist, and a drummer to his early electric experiments playing a meld of cajun-flavored soul, rock, and R&B. His later electric slide guitar fury style is all but absent here, but the acoustic slide work is particularly plentiful. Other styles of rural acoustic blues are represented by the Piedmont-styled Dont Cry for Me and Lookin for a Good Time (the latter played with a backing band). Theres some roadhouse boogie here as well in Baby Aint That Love and The Only One. In other words, there isnt anything about this collection that cant be recommended." (Thom Jurek, Allmusic)