Rick Shea

★★★★

Love & Desperation

TRES PESCADORES. CD/DL

These 12 songs have an instant familiarity: the slow-slung blues of Blues At Midnight; the story-telling ballad title track featuring the devil, temptation and an errant wife; or honky tonk country Blues Stop Knockin’ At My Door, where Shea’s fine voice sounds like it could break into a yodel at any time were it not for sheer willpower. There’s Mexican-Americana too (Juanita) and an instrumental (Mystic Canyon) that sounds like the perfect California sunset.