Duke Robillard's Roll with Me is his 37th album and his final release on the Canadian Stony Plain label. The programme comprises four original compositions by Robillard and eight covers of classic R&B and blues tunes associated with Fats Domino, Gatemouth Brown, Big Joe Turner, Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters.
The set opens with Eddie Boyd's "Blue Coat Man", a familiar title in Robillard's repertoire. Here, horns and a piano interact freely with chord shapes and single-string passages. The single "Just Kiss Me" is a sultry walking blues with twists and turns, finger-tingling brass and a six-string solo. Fats Domino's "Are You Going My Way" sounds more like a tribute to Professor Longhair.
