Music

June, 1993

Charles M. YoungEach Time I think I've heard everything that can possibly be done with the blues, somebody comes along and makes me feel really, really foolish. John Campbell is the latest somebody, and he has really shaken my self-esteem with his second album, Howlin Mercy (Elektra). The blues moribund? Not while this guy's alive. A classically ravaged voice of experience, Campbell sings about halfway between Howlin' Wolf and Leonard Cohen (and even that doesn't do justice to his defiant, raw m...

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