Bibb digs deep on latest release

VUSI MAHLASELA

ERIC BIBB

- 7:30 tonight

- Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln

- Tickets, $21-$25

- (773) 728-60000

If you were going to build the perfect acoustic bluesman, he'd probably turn out looking and sounding exactly like Eric Bibb.

Well-spoken, good-looking and sophisticated, Bibb has always seemed almost too perfect. Music comes from heart and soul, not the intellect, and Bibb's mannered, calculating approach has often come across as contrived.

Now, with the release of "Get on Board," his fourth solo album for the jazz-blues specialty label Telarc, his music maintains its usual sincere link to the …