This disc contains 12 tracks by Charlie Lincoln (who was actually Charley Hicks, the brother of Barbecue Bob Hicks) and ten tracks by the obscure Willie Baker. Both guitarists were from Georgia, both favored open G-tunings, and both tended to approach the guitar like a banjo, using a modified frailing or claw-hammer strum. The similarities between the two can be best appreciated by listening to their versions of "Mama Don"t Rush Me," included here back to back, and they are essentially carbon copies of each other, with only the timbre of the vocal differing. This unique-but limiting -- strumming or frailing pattern quickly gets a bit monotonous after a few cuts, and the appeal of this collection (which essentially duplicates the release on Document Records, adding an additional Baker track) will be mostly to collectors and historians of early country blues. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi