Singing or rapping, wailing or moaning, hammering or caressing, sweeping or doing the finger's tiptoeing dancing on his piano ivories and in spite of the rather informal feel of these sessions Otis Spann justifies why he deserved being considered an outstanding Blues performer and one of the best Blues pianists of his time; his vocabulary encompasses everything from Chicagoan thunder to Jazz subtleties , and after he'd successively slowed down tempos without diminishing the intensities from the opening "Home to Mississippi" down to "You Said You'd be on Time" , and he switched to organ for the flaming instrumental title track, you'd probably be surprised to learn the man had some hidden tricks up his other sleeve;