Kelly Joe Phelps at the Jazz Café, London
Nick Hasted, Independent, The, 13 June 2003
KELLY JOE PHELPS has been punching through the boundaries of who he is supposed to be with every album. I first knew him as the religiously inclined, prodigious country blues guitarist of 1996's Roll Away the Stone, itself a progression from his jazz beginnings.
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