Trudy Lynn Royal Oaks Blues Cafe (CD)

(CBH) 11 tracks
Re-release of the acclaimed album Royal Oaks Blues Café (2013), which reached #1 on the Billboard Blues Charts. Trudy Lynn gives Steve Krase a starring role on Royal Oaks Blues Café and he indeed shines throughout the album. He provides subtle support, sometimes stepping aside to accent her verses, then taking centre stage for slippery, smooth solos that bring a bit of Chicago to Lynn's Texas blues.

. The casual crossing of genre boundaries is one of the attractive things about Lynn's later career: she's absorbed all the changes in soul-blues styles since the '60s, allowing her to switch back and forth between sounds with ease.

Roadhouse rockers, smooth rolling soul and funky R&B, Lynn is a master of each of these sounds, a joy to hear enjoying each other's company