Dawn Shipley and the Sharp Shooters Mad About You b/w Sugar Mama Dawn Shipley is back! At last! Her latest record was Baby If I and  dates from 2006. One can say that this lady knows how to create the desire. Was it worth the wait? You bet! The first part of her recording offensive comes in the form of a superb 45 rpm on red vinyl (downloads available too for you crazy nerds) recorded at Pot O’Gold Recording Studios in Orange County, CA. It features two self-penned songs: Mad About You b/w Sugar Mama. A side is a rockaballad with a slight 60′s feel and a bit of Buddy Holly into it. The song is very well built with a nice latin variation in the chorus and a short but great guitar solo by Jose « Watts » Rodriguez (also worth mentioning are Tony « T-Mac » Macias on upright bass and Aaron Martinez on drums). It’s backed with Sugar Mama a fine rockabilly/rural bop with a Sun feel. Attention folks it’s a limited edition. Then you have « Little Too Late » which is available only in mp3 format. This one is more rockin’, with a more agressive guitar, also played by Jose Rodriguez but this time backed by Jordi Hereu on bass and Jeff « Hobo » Gerow on drums. Both are available at cdbaby but don’t forget to pay a visit to her homepage. One can only hope that her next move will be the release of a long play (but if she comes with a 10″ mini album, I won’t complain!).   Baby If I... El Toro Records Bear With Me Baby - Sealed With A Kiss - Baby If I... -. Empty Stretch Of Highway - Make Believe - I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down - Anyone But You - Crazy Dreams - Sharp Shootin' - Goin' Crazy - One Cup Of Coffee - My Rockin' Baby - Full Moon Keeps On Shining - You're The Only One - Empty Stretch Of Highway Version 2 You'll find a wide variety of genres on Dawn Shipley’s second album. The opening track “Bear With Me Baby” is a solid rocking song with an early 60’s beat. Of course, there's a majority of Rockabilles like “Anyone But You” (nice guitar work with some Scotty Moore echoes in it), the frantic rhythm of “Baby If I”, the cover of Glen Glenn’s “One Cup Of Coffee” and on the rural edge “full Moon Keeps On Shining”. “Empty Stretch Of Highway” a haunting country song with echo on the guitar has some more modern vibes in it. It’s probably one of the best cut of the album and I suppose I’m not the only one to think that because you find an alternate take more acoustic and slower that ends the album. On the “traditional” country side “Make Believe” is a true and classic Honky Tonk with good steel throughout and Patsy Cline’s Crazy Dream is slightly played faster than the original, but is still a great country weeper. Warm voice, slight rhythm and jazz chords on the guitar are on the menu of “Goin’ Crazy” a love song a la “Fever”. “Sharp Shootin’” a fine hillbilly instrumental is another occasion for guitarist Joel Morin to shine on picking guitar and on steel. The rest of the band has to be credited too for their solid work on the album : Tony Macias on bass and Tony DeHerrera on drums. Good job. Fred "Virgil" Turgis