Still on the Road to Freedom nods to country-blues, embodied by Alvin’s gutbucket harp on “Save My Stuff” (“I was a big fan of Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee”) and the delta stomp “Blues Got Me So Bad” (“My blues name is Deaf Lemon Lee”). He evokes a folksy feel in the stark acoustic “Walk On, Walk Tall,” perfects the sensuous slow blues style of J.J. Cale in “Nice and Easy,” and strums Spanish rhythms in the instrumental “Song of the Red Rock Mountain,” a song he made up on the spot while testing a microphone.

Leecontinues to explore that creative freedom with the tribal African drums of“Listen to Your Radio Station,” which includes a sample loop from the late Ian Wallace, the gospel organ of “Midnight Creeper” and the surprising funk of the rousing “Rock You.”

Thealbum also features “Love Like a Man 2,” a remake of the song on the band’s 1970 album Cricklewood Green, inspired, according to Lee, by New Orleans R&B player Smiley Lewis’ “I Hear You Knocking,” with a nod towards seminal influence Chuck Berry.

Asked how he’d describe himself, Lee pauses: “A musician . . . who leans towards blues, but likes rock and roll, country, funk, jazz — anything with a guitar in it.

After all these years, Alvin Lee’s still going home.