The Master of the Telecaster's late work on Alligator Records is so bold and impassioned, even joke album tracks like “Broke” come across with a surfeit of electric-blues power. But Collins had a sharp, biting tone in his early years, laying it atop greasy, mid-'60s soul arrangements like “Don't Lose Your Cool” and Bo Diddley-style rhythms on “The Freeze,” leading to another nickname, “The Iceman.”