Hitson, Herman – Let The Gods Sing – New LP

While this is a brand new LP, it sounds like it could've come from a virile blues elder in the late 1960s or early 1970s who refused to sit down and was bent on showing he's still in his prime, coming out of the blues acid-rock of Hendrix fused with other signature 1960s styles, the groove and psychedelic sounds of soul jazz and Isaac Hayes, the muscular soul of Memphis and Detroit, the get-down grind of Bo Diddley, the get-up funk of the Godfather...which all makes sense considering Hitson from Atlanta reportedly contributed his talents to nearly everyone who comes to mind when you listen to this, Hendrix, James Brown, Joe Tex, Bobby Womack, Wilson Pickett, Jackie Wilson, Hank Ballard & the Midnighters, and Lee Moses. Don't feel bad if you didn't know this cat, cuz I sure didn't.  I sure do now.  Hitson and the band put on the pots and cook up vat of bubbling funk, a whole stovetop of grits and greaze, dinner and dessert, Georgia peach cobbler and chitlin con carne, the former pl