The album known as Self-Titled was originally released in 2006 on the arCHIVE label, and later reissued as a CD two-fer with Dr. Ragtime and His Pals. It contains a combination of studio and live recordings. Self-Titled is marked by a sense of forward momentum, the result of several years of constant playing, with fresh versions of a number of previously attempted songs. Blind Willie Johnsons spiritual Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground is manipulated into a wailing slide-guitar lament. Levee pops like a warning. St. Louis Blues (in this and its several other incarnations across his entire catalog) is a good example of Jacks innate sense of swing, a crucial characteristic of his playing perhaps lost on some of his fingerpicking followers. The centerpiece of the album, however, is the nearly sidelong Spirits in the House, which begins with tentative weeping glissandos, and slowly reveals itself as a stately fingerpicked blues meditation.

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