Anybody who caught a glimpse of Robert Randolph supporting the Blasters in London last summer was stunned to discover that you can sound like Jimi Hendrix on a 13-stringed pedal steel guitar.

Randolph has learned how to squeeze every roar, screech, swoop and growl from this fiendishly complicated device. On their debut studio recording, he and band manage to capture something of the furore they create on stage, though the limitations of Randolph's songwriting quickly begin to show (he wrote or co-wrote all but one track).

The pieces break down into funky blues, fast-stepping boogie or soul ballads, and the romantic lyrics of the latter don't bear much scrutiny: "Because of you the sun is shining/ And there's not a cloud in sight", for example.

It's best to concentrate on the band's high-octane interplay, heard to palpitating effect on the stomping Nobody, the Sly Stone-ish I Need More Love or the funk-soul barrage of Good Times.