The Brian Setzer Orchestra
VAVOOM!
(Deko Entertainment)
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Weeks ago, Brian disclosed saddening news: “I just wanted to check in with you all,” he wrote online. “Towards the end of the last Stray Cats tour I noticed that my hands were cramping up. I’ve since discovered that I have an autoimmune disease. I cannot play guitar."
Of course, so widely (and rightly) appreciated are his masterclass adroitness and contributions to music that they require no retelling. Instead, spinning any discs that bear his name impresses satisfactorily.
2000's Vavoom! (Interscope) was the Brian Setzer Orchestra's fourth effort. Now, for the first time since that issuance, it graces shelves in limited, variously colored vinyl incarnations. From its grooves leap great-big-and-sassy sounds redolent of champagne ballrooms of Rooseveltian vintage.
Brass merriment is writ large, shoulder-to-pinstriped shoulder with fractued guitar on the footloose. Dressed to the nines, Jacks and Jills knock it out. More fun can't be had. (At least, not within statutes.)
Fashions, auto designs, and popular musics of yesteryear were superior to most contemporary strivings. Brian understands that. For, just as he'd punched-up traditional Rockabilly gestures with muscular, post-Punk ripping, the guitar maestro restores killer-diller Big Band stylings with brazen rumbustiousness.
Swinging airs long forgotten bounded back to the fore. And new generations of jits swung wings. Brian untethered hands-in-air jollification.
Prayers are advised, that he rebound and continue preaching the gospel of those straight-from-the-fridge.
Recommended: "Jumpin' East of Java," "If You Can't Rock Me," "Gettin' In the Mood," "Drive Like Lightnin' (Crash Like Thunder), "Mack the Knife," "Caravan," "The Footloose Doll," "From Here To Eternity," "That's the Kinda Sugar Papa Likes," "Jukebox," "Gloria"
Video: "If You Can't Rock Me" "Caravan" (live) "That's the Kinda Sugar Papa Likes"
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