Recorded live in the studio over 2 days, without any overdubs and mainly taking only one take, Ain’t Gotta Dime is Boo Boo Davis’ 6th album for Dutch label, Black & Tan. Silvermine is a grizzly, grungy, throbbing opener. There is no level of pace injected into Ten Thousand Dollar either but the quality is already shining through. Watch Yourself is a mid-paced R&B with a fuzzed vocal and a certain earthy feel. The quality continues with My Baby Got Me Fixed and The Man Who Be Around evokes feelings of the past and confirms Boo Boo as a true blues man. The eponymous title track is deep, down in your soul music and Boo Boo Blues is a romping, stomping boogie. Boo Boo certainly knows how to have a rollicking good time.

Cake Lady is a Delta blues with a drumbeat and this will touch your hidden depths. The repetition on Don’t Wait Too Late will hypnotize you but you will be brought crashing back to earth by the superb blowing harp and fuzzed vocal of Standing At The Fishbank. Let Me Ride With You is a hi-energy, swinging blues and he goes all Bo Diddley on Got My Loving, Now You’re Gone. Cryin’ Blues is slow and wailing, well what would you expect? He finishes it off with the fast paced R&B of the quaintly titled There’s A Roach Crawlin’.

Boo Boo Davis has an air of authenticity that some of his peers lack.

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David Blue.