2005-06-16
With a voice that's part Michael Tarbox / part Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Rick Cookin' Sherry leads Chicago's Devil in a Woodpile as they put a decidedly non-standard hillbilly/swing twist on a collection of blues, gospel and hot club jazz standards from Charlie Patton, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Terry, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Led Zeppelin (?).Smokin'.
LERA LYNN
Have You Met Lera Lynn
Jack Radcliff & Al Oliveira
Two Hot to Handle
BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN
Back to Love
DIGNEY FIGNUS
Trouble on the Levee
THE 23 STRING BAND
bangin' and clangin'
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO
Real Animal
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