John Hiatt’s Master of Disaster and the subsequent tours arguably showed the North Mississippi All-Stars at their finest. I know a lot of people love Luther Dickinson’s extended one-chord guitar solos, but I know as many people who’d like to hear that talent harnessed to better songs. With Hiatt, the band found them and was remarkable. Here, they collaborate with Jon Spencer and working with the post-modern blues dude again shows how inventive and hard the N. Mississippis can be. Pick any 20 minutes out of this hour-plus CD and you find a cool mix of garage rock distortion, one-chord blues and odd noise experiments. Listen to the whole thing and you’ll hear lots of garage rock distortion, one-chord blues and odd noise experiments, but they make less of an impact as the album goes on. This would have been a kickass EP.