CD title - Still Blowin' Strong
label - Blue Loon
catalog# BLN-021
UPC# 7-51483-00212-7
Devil's Love, Married Woman Blues, Lonesome Highway, Harp Blast, Don't Say I Don't Love You, Walkin' Down Beale Street, Apple on a Tree, Overplayed and Underpaid, I Found Me a Bird Nest, That Ain't the Way You Do It, In My Younger Days, Hand Me That Piano, You Know I Love You, Lena
Mojo Buford (vocals & harp), Dave "Cool Breeze" Brown (guitar), Bill Black (bass), Marty Bryduck (drums), Bruce Pedalty (piano).
"If you have a soft spot for the great blues sounds cut in Chicago in the '50's, by the likes of Snooky Pryor, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, etc., then this is a CD that you will definitely need to purchase..... Plenty of gut wrenching harp, top flight vocals, and a wonderful backing band (especially "Cool Breeze" Brown on guitar) and excellent recording quality all contribute to a CD which I nominate as my number on disc for 1996" - Phil Wight (Blues Rhythm)
"Somewhere, Muddy Waters is smiling down on this record. Harmonica player and singer Mojo Bufordhas tapped the spirit of Waters - with whom he toured - and the passionate, direct ensemble work that marks the best in the straight-shooting Windy City blues tradition. Buford blows big throughout the set, swooping and warbling on the harp when he's not shouting out lyrics in a husky, infectuous style." - Bill Kisliuk (Southland Blues)
"Buford plays a down-home harp style, which is closer in influence to the acoustic style of Sonny Boy II than Little Walter's horn lines. Mojo's "Harp Blast" demonstrates that his style can rock out just as hot as a Little Walter clone. He uses lots of tasty octaves throughout. Mojo has a blues shout from the Muddy Waters school of vocals." - Phil Lloyd (American Harmonica Newsletter)
"Still Blowin' Strong shows Mojo back in fine form, with classic blues. His hot harmonica playing delivers a liquid, fat distorted tone."- Michael Dregni (Vintage Guitar Magazine)
"His leads are pure Chicago ..... you can see why Muddy sought him out over and over again... on these 14 cuts, nine of them composed by Buford, the harp playing is, as the title suggests, strong, strong, strong." - Kevin Hagerty (Blues Access)
"Former Muddy Waters band harpslinger George "Mojo" Buford lives up to the tile of his album, Still Blowin' Strong ..... this is probably Buford's best recorded work yet... Buford still plays the Mississippi saxophone in a down-home, understated style that's fast becomming a lost art" - Dan Emerson (Request Magazine)
