Three of today’s deepest, most decorated acoustic blues masters reunite to summon ancestral spirits with songs both long remembered and newly created.

Three of today’s deepest, most decorated acoustic blues masters reunite to summon ancestral spirits with songs both long remembered and newly created. Even as they step back in time, Guy Davis, Corey Harris and Alvin Youngblood Hart–who met at the 1996 Chicago Blues Festival and won ardent acclaim for their first True Blues project in 2013–prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that African American blues remains as vital and vibrant as ever.

Recorded separately in Virginia, Mississippi and New York, these soul-stirring performances include a Jimmy Strother banjo song migrated to Piedmont-style guitar (Harris’s ‘Fight On’), an inspired reworking of Elizabeth Cotten’s ‘Shake Sugaree,’ reimagined as if Blind Willie McTell were playing the guitar (Davis’s ‘Everything I Got Is