The Blues Summit

Devon Allman's new project The Devon Allman Blues Summit, is a powerhouse gathering of blues legends that promises to electrify the stage. Once again, it's a decidedly collaborative effort that sees Allman's core band augmented by big-time players like Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Larry McCray, Sierra Green, Jimmy Hall and Robert Randolph. Yet this time around, Allman displays an uncanny willingness to share the spotlight. He does more than feature his guests on this session. On roughly half of the album's ten tracks, he lets them take center stage. And since most of his guests are big-time blues players, we wind up with one of the bluesiest albums of Allman's career. As the title says: it's a Blues Summit.