Chicago bluesman Eddie Vaan Shaw Jr.'s CD Ass Whoopin!! stems from four different sessions with members of the Blues Imperials, Willie Kent and the Gents, Magic Slim and the Teardrops, The Germany Blues All-Star Band and former band members of Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and Elmore James. Ass Whoopin!! features Eddie Vaan's solid rhythm guitar, characteristic voice, head ripping bursts, soaring electric lines, and complex acoustic strokes on blues numbers such as "Mornin' Rain" (both studio and live versions are included), "Never Used Blues" and the instrumental "Pimp Slap Slide". Even his humor comes out in the lyrics to songs such as "TV Preacher" and "B.S. Makes The World Go Around". As David White was quoted in the Chicago Reader Weekly, "Eddie Vaan is one of our most outrageously exploratory blues guitarists, he spits fire all over the fretboard." Blues, total running time, 73:05