best work of their long-lived careers. One of these is guitarist/singer Albert Collins, whose stock has risen greatly over the past two years with appearances at Live Aid, Texas’ 150th Birthday Bash and NBC Radio’s “Live at the Hard Rock With Paul Schaffer,” and a W.C. Handy Award-winning LP. His newest release, “Cold Snap,” is possibly the best of his thirteen-record career.
Collins opens and closes the album with swinging jump blues numbers, romps through funk R&B cuts, and ventures into more traditional Texas blues formats with the kind of white hot solos that have earned him the nickname “Master of the Telecaster.” The record’s high point, though, is a hilarious cover of Jimmy Liggins’
