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When Leon Atkins, aka Li’l Jimmy Reed says, “life just keeps getting better with time,” it would be wise to recall how Louisiana blues was born. Poverty, segregation and brutal labor in the fields and factories provided the template for the raw blues that welled up from the workers’ laments. Like so many impoverished kids with an ear for music, his first instrument was homemade – a guitar crafted from a cigar box. It was enough to set him on his way to becoming an accomplished voice for the raw blues style of the region. He absorbed the blues from the club across the street, where the sounds pumping through the Louisiana night air were insinuated into his very being. Li’l Jimmy Reed carries on the traditions of those early influences in a remarkable and mesmerizing sound that marries the past with the present.
