KENNY ‘BEEDY EYES’ SMITH & the House Bumpers/Drop the Hammer: Wildly raw and ragged modern blues from a cat who lived in Muddy Waters’ basement while his pop pounded the skins for the master. Billy Flynn might show up on sitar, but this ain’t no set of white boy blues. Purely from the west side with ghetto roots intact even if a trip to the cotton fields isn’t, the moving finger of time has moved on, and even when the traditional harp is blowing, this is modern stuff throughout. Certainly jarring to moldy figs, this is a map of the future. A wonderful, wild ride.