The album opens nicely with "Blues for April Green," which defines the style of the Browntones. There are subtle shades of SRV, Fab T-birds, and maybe even a little early Bluesbreakers about the way they play. It all fits nicely together, with Brown leading from the front on harp and vocals. The band then shift up a gear for the first swamp blues influenced number, "Ain't No Way." The second, "Hot Dog," is a risque blues with shades of Slim Harpo in the harp playing.

For someone who is best known as a guitarist, Brown is a more than capable harp player. On "Celluphone Blues," for example, which chugs along neatly, his playing calls to mind the great Snooky Pryor. He also plays chromatic harp on "The Woman I Love," which has a nice walking bass line, courtesy of John Bradley. The harp also combines surprisingly well with Elliott Sowell's guitar on the T-Bone Walker style "Poultry Queen Boogie."

In addition to the eight original tunes, there are five covers, starting with Sam Myers ("I've Got The Blues"), and ranging through to "Muskadine Blues," one of Little Walter's first recorded tracks. The latter precedes the closing track, "Hey Little Baby," where the Browntones are reduced to the duo of Jon Moeller (guitar) and Hash Brown. It is a more down home blues tune, and it is easy to imagine this as a call-and-response song in a live show.

"Have Some Fun!" certainly achieves its aim: it sounds like the band had fun recording it, and it certainly makes for pleasurable listening. There are no real great surprises here, with a familiar feel to many of the songs, all of which are all performed well. Even though two different line-ups were used during recording, you would be hard pushed to identify which songs came from which session. "Have Some Fun!" should appeal to blues lovers everywhere--particularly fans of Texas blues--and shows that there is still plenty of life in the old dog yet.

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