Rolling Stone
April 1, 2004

By David Fricke

The Ramblers are from Boston, via the Mississippi cottonfields and crossroads of RL Burnside and the late Junior Kimbrough. Mostly produced by Jim Dickinson, who knows a lot about making modern blues records with tractor-shed ambience,  A Fix Back East , the Ramblers' second album, jumps with old-timey authenticity.  Michael Tarbox's sour-mash-soaked voice and grunting guitar burns like canned heat through any doubts you have about Yankees fooling around with plantation moans