Big, but in the jazzy tradition where the horns do the backing and the horns do the solos, and the guitar isn't even really a meaningful part of the equation. Turner is a big, bold blues shouter in the most traditional sense, and his voice is round and powerful, but a bit bland - this is performance of good music, not of wrestling with personal demons and desperation put to tape. That's probably because this, even in 1956, was a retrospective, recreating early boogie and R&B songs in the studio.
Without that immediacy, without that guitar, without that desperation, this is missing too many of the things that make for a good blues and early rock recording, reading more as blues-flavored big band, which isn't exactly what I, for one, am in the market for just now 3/5
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