" ... a recording that has classic stamped all over it. He conceived of the album as a two-sided vinyl LP featuring two distinct suites, the Baron Samedi Suite (inspired by the voodoo loa or spirit associated with the crossroads between the living and the dead) on side A and the Jelly Roll Suite (inspired by Ferdinand LeMenthe a.k.a. Jelly Roll Morton, the pianist and composer who was a seminal architect of New Orleans ragtime and jazz) on side B ... shining a spotlight on an artist whose roots run deep in the blues tradition and who has never been afraid of drawing upon a wide array of influences and crossbreeding what are usually considered distinct traditions and genres"