WORKING MAN - ALBERT CUMMINGS
For several years, Albert Cummings has been juggling two careers — custom home builder and blues guitarist. The release of “Working Man” is only going to make his life more complicated, for this record is the calling card of a blues star who has arrived. Cummings’ guitar work is sizzling, his vocals are sturdy, and he wrote all but one of the 13 tunes on the disc — the one cover tune is an inspired version of Merle Haggard’s “Workin’ Man Blues.” For a nice mix of grooves, spin “Girls to Shame,” the slow burners “Let Me Be” and “Rumors,” and the distinctly Southern “Feeling End.” This is one of the top blues albums of 2006. Billboard
