Jeremiah Johnson

Heavens To Betsy

The St Louis bandleader made his mark with 2018’s ‘Straitjacket’, but for ‘Heavens To Betsy’ Johnson guns his Chevy deeper below the Mason-Dixon Line and doubles down on southern rock. With Tornado coming on like Zep’s Heartbreaker with added sax appeal, and White Lightning surveying the ravaged land of a dust-belt farmer via a brass lick straight outta Stax, this is powerful, blue-collar stuff.