Kid Thomas - Here's My Story (CD)

All Music Guide

He may not be a household name, but a whole CD's worth of unissued Kid Thomas is something worth bringing to your attention. After all, it is a) scorching, chaotic, harmonica-driven, rockin' blues straight out of the '50s acetate mentality, chock full of alternate-take heaven, and b) an undisputable fact that a joint purchase of this and the Rockin' Harmonica Blues Men CD will make you pretty much a Kid Thomas completist. Titles on this 16-tracker include four takes of "The Wolf Pack," and four takes (I count up five on the back, but the disc only plays four; make that a 15-song compilation -- earth to quality control at Wolf) of "Beulah Come Back," two just-plain-nasty takes of "The Spell" (off an acetate that skips on the second take, for God's sake) the instrumental "Jivin' Mess," "Come In This House," "She's Fine," and the title track, an "I'm a Man"-style voodoo stomp that truly justifies the pompadour the Kid is sporting on the cover.

- Cub Koda, All Music Guide