Eric Bibb figured twice in this celebration of the blues, the first time an opening set that confirmed him as the leading folk-blues singer-guitarist of the age and the second when his song Don't Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down earned equal status between two classics, Catfish Blues and Nina Simone's C-Line Woman, as the Heritage Blues Orchestra presented their all-encompassing take on the music's history.
Eric Bibb figured twice in this celebration of the blues, the first time an opening set that confirmed him as the leading folk-blues singer-guitarist of the age and the second when his song Don't Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down earned equal status between two classics, Catfish Blues and Nina Simone's C-Line Woman, as the Heritage Blues Orchestra presented their all-encompassing take on the music's history.
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Rob Adams
With his warm, beautifully modulated singing, his variously relaxed and urgently grooving but always expert guitar picking and his natural approachability, Bibb gave something of a Story of the Blues – acoustic department – recitation. From Stagolee, that oldest of blues tales detailing a killing over a $5 dollar hat, to his own gently sophisticated Connected, he was the most amenable of guides, a genuine heir to the music's pioneers.
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