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Root'n
Toot'n
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Making Hay
Big River - Your Cheatin Heart - Man Of Constant Sorrow - Wabash Cannonball - I'll Hold You In My Heart - Cocaine Blues - Lord It's Hard To Be Humble - Roly Poly - Mr Moon - The Words Of Love - Have You Ever Been Lonely - Battle of New Orleans - Deep In The Heart Of Texas - Oklahoma Hills - Goodbye Marie - You Are My Sunshine
Our favorite British hillbillies are back with a brand new 16 songs platter, all covers but one, the excellent Words Of Love. There's no big changes or departure from their precedent release, but if it ain't broken, don't fix it, as they say. You'll find hillbilly, bluegrass, skiffle powdered with rockabilly (Malcom Yelvington's Goodbye marie). Colin Mee is at ease on ballads like Eddy Arnold's I'll Hold You In My Arms but he can deliver strong uptempo numbers like Cocaine Blues.If Mee takes the lion's share of lead vocals, Mandy sings too and gives a good rendition of Jim reeves' Have You Ever Been Lonely. She also plays clarinet on Deep In The Heart Of Texas one of my absolute favorite, that made me think of the novelty western swing style of Bob Skyles and His Skyrockets. I'd love to hear a full album like this. A highly entertaining album available on their website on both cd format and mp3's.
Fred "Virgil"
Turgis
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Rootn
Tootn
Raw & Uncut
SKCD02
Mandy's On A Diet -
Rockabilly Baby - Walking
The Floor Over You - Blue
Eyes Crying In The Rain -
Cry Cry Cry - Greenback
Dollar - Four In The
Morning - There's A New
Moon - Tom Dooley - Turn
Around - Putting On The
Style - Turn My Picture
Upside Down - Itchin' For
My Baby - Candy Kisses -
Little Red Wagon - She's
My Baby
This British trio
consists of well known
members on the English
scene coming from bands
like The Sureshots, The
Skiprats, Cat Scratch
Fever and Country Cattin.
They play hillbilly bop
and rockabilly with a
touch of skiffle here and
there with spare
instrumentation (two
guitars and a bass with
sometimes a washboard or
a ukulele) and though
their set mainly consists
of covers, they manage to
stay true to the
originals and bring some
fresh air in this
timeless classics in the
same time. And believe
me, its not an easy
task with Cashs Cry
Cry Cry. On Faron Youngs
Four In The Morning,
youd swear to hear
an unreleased Elvis Sun
master with Cliff Gallup
guesting on guitar that
stayed on a dusty shelf
all this years.
Talent knows talent and
youre not surprised
to see that Chris
Cumming, from the now
legendary Riverside Trio,
is involved in the
production of this album.
Well played, varied, fun,
pleasant, superbly
produced, boys (and girl)
let me tell you one
thing, you won a new fan.
Get it at http://www.rootntootn.co.uk/
Fred "Virgil"
Turgis
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