On his first record in more than 16 years, he comes with a deadpan humor and a grizzled resolve. Back with a slammin’, jivin', stream-of-consciousness which features a much more weathered and threadbare voice — yet it has a more relaxed, hang loose energy. Still tellin’ it like is — just the other side of a long life. Forty years later, his style is more bluesy and sparse than jazzy.

Karen (Hollywood)