Big Sandy

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Have Love Will Travel 02:47 Tools
Hold Tight Mama 01:41 Tools
Hey Senorita 02:12 Tools
Lonely Guy 02:03 Tools
Moonshine Rhythm 02:11 Tools
Pretty Girls Everywhere 03:00 Tools
Yama Yama Pretty Mama 02:40 Tools
Baby Baby Me 02:29 Tools
Hey Girl, Hey Boy 02:49 Tools
Gloria 02:20 Tools
Queen Of My Heart 02:15 Tools
Love You So 03:13 Tools
Guided Missiles 02:34 Tools
Death Of An Angel 03:09 Tools
Don't Desert Me 02:15 Tools
I'm Leavin' It All Up To You 02:50 Tools
Dedicated To You 02:31 Tools
Heaven And Paradise 02:48 Tools
Honky Tonk Queen 03:06 Tools
Missouri Gal 02:17 Tools
Oochie Coochie 03:15 Tools
Power of the 45 03:31 Tools
Hey Girl - Hey Boy 00:00 Tools
Rock Rock 02:02 Tools
I'm Gonna Leave 02:30 Tools
Baby You Done Gone 02:21 Tools
Hot Water 02:18 Tools
Miss Tracy 02:11 Tools
Hey Girl-Hey Boy 02:46 Tools
Let Me Love You Right 02:11 Tools
Chica Alborotada/Tallahassee Lassie 01:56 Tools
La Suegra/Mother in Law 02:28 Tools
Oochie Coohie 00:00 Tools
Big Fat Trouble 01:57 Tools
Slippin' Out, Sneakin' In 02:46 Tools
Hi-Billy Music 02:41 Tools
Kaw-Liga 02:46 Tools
Feelin' Kinda Lucky 00:00 Tools
Jumping From 6 To 6 03:09 Tools
The Loser's Blues 02:56 Tools
High Steppin' 02:35 Tools
When I Found You 02:11 Tools
Tequila Calling 02:35 Tools
Someone Like You 02:19 Tools
Love That Man 04:00 Tools
Different Girl 02:12 Tools
True Blue 02:17 Tools
Haunted Heels 04:00 Tools
Weary Blues From Waitin' 02:57 Tools
Moonshine Rythm 02:11 Tools
Strange Love 00:00 Tools
Barnyard Beatnik 02:30 Tools
Bugtussle Saturday Night 00:00 Tools
Steady Baby 00:00 Tools
Three Years Blind 00:00 Tools
The Greatest Story Ever Told 03:09 Tools
Thru Dreamin' 02:40 Tools
This Ain't A Good Time 02:18 Tools
Honey Stick Around A While 02:36 Tools
What's It To Ya- 02:36 Tools
Big '49 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Had the Feeli' 00:00 Tools
Backdoor Dan 03:55 Tools
a man like me 02:47 Tools
between darkness and 02:48 Tools
This Heart O' Mine 02:00 Tools
Foothill Boogie 02:27 Tools
night tide 02:48 Tools
Kiss-A-Me Baby 01:54 Tools
hey lowdown 03:55 Tools
If I Knew Now ( What I Knew Then) 02:27 Tools
Let's Make It.....Tonite! 02:18 Tools
Juiced 02:23 Tools
let her know 02:58 Tools
give your loving to 02:51 Tools
Have & Hold 02:42 Tools
when sleep won't com 03:07 Tools
The Great State of Misery 03:02 Tools
Who, tell me who 03:07 Tools
if you only knew 03:07 Tools
South Bay Stomp 03:07 Tools
i think of you 03:07 Tools
Lookin' for a Love me gal 03:07 Tools
in the steel of the 03:02 Tools
nothing to lose 04:00 Tools
my time will come so 03:02 Tools
Mad 03:02 Tools
Kiss-A-Me-Baby 02:20 Tools
Hold Me 02:20 Tools
Glad When I'm Gone 00:00 Tools
Ruby Jane 00:00 Tools
One Sided Love 02:56 Tools
Goodnight Rock 00:00 Tools
Spanish Dagger 00:00 Tools
The Ones You Say You Love 00:00 Tools
This Heart O Mine 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know Me at All 00:00 Tools
I Know I've Loved You Before 04:15 Tools
Pinin' 02:11 Tools
Chica Alborotada/Tallahassee L 01:56 Tools
Love Me To Cinders 01:56 Tools
Draggen-It Boogie 01:56 Tools
Hey Señorita 03:41 Tools
Lonesome Dollar 01:56 Tools
Laguna Sunset 03:41 Tools
Straight-8 Boogie 03:08 Tools
Slippin' Away 01:56 Tools
Chalk it Up to the Blues 03:12 Tools
How Did You Love Someone Like Me? 03:24 Tools
Wildest Cat In Town 01:48 Tools
It's Time! 03:12 Tools
Booze Party 02:05 Tools
Mary's Mood 04:27 Tools
Wizard's Dust 02:51 Tools
Rosetta 04:24 Tools
Heaven Is The Other Way 02:48 Tools
I Played the Game [*] 02:48 Tools
Get the Gravy Hot 02:48 Tools
Minor Struggle 04:04 Tools
Yes - I Feel Sorry For You 04:24 Tools
What's Buzzin', Cuzzin? 03:08 Tools
Wishing Him Away 03:16 Tools
(You Mean) Too Much To Me 03:16 Tools
One of These Days [*] 02:51 Tools
I Hate Loving You 02:55 Tools
Flyin' Rite 03:10 Tools
The Money Tree 02:46 Tools
rhapsody in violet 04:04 Tools
Water Baby Blues [*] 03:08 Tools
Bayou Blue 02:34 Tools
Make a Little Time for Jesus 02:34 Tools
Jake's Barbershop [Unreleased Version][*] 02:34 Tools
The Night Is for Dreamers 02:34 Tools
Her Hair Is A Mess 04:04 Tools
LOVE DEBUT 02:55 Tools
Strollin' with Mary Jane 02:13 Tools
Rite Boys 03:45 Tools
Power Of The 45 Pt. 2 02:13 Tools
Yes (I Feel Sorry for You) 04:15 Tools
Catalina 03:45 Tools
I Played the Game 03:45 Tools
D. Of L. Boogie 02:57 Tools
Parts Unknown 04:15 Tools
The New Ball 02:30 Tools
Haunted Hills 04:15 Tools
Blackberry Wine 04:15 Tools
Who, Tell Me Who? 02:30 Tools
Hit And Run 02:47 Tools
My Sinful Days Are Over 02:30 Tools
Water Baby Blues 02:30 Tools
Hey Muchachita 02:30 Tools
Girl At The Bar 02:30 Tools
La Suegra aka Mother in Law 02:30 Tools
Power of the 45, Part 1 02:30 Tools
Have you ever had the feelin' 02:30 Tools
Jake's Barbershop 02:57 Tools
One of These Days 02:26 Tools
Goodbye Little Star 02:26 Tools
Lookin' For A "Love Me" Gal 02:26 Tools
If I Knew Now (What I Knew Then) 02:26 Tools
Chica Alborotada aka Tallahassee Lassie 02:26 Tools
rite boys-i think of you 02:26 Tools
We Tried To Tell You 02:26 Tools
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Since forming in 1988, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys have emerged as one of the world's most respected practitioners of American roots music—western swing, rockabilly, and traditional country—playing it like they invented it. "I think of us as just a rock and roll band—a rock and roll band that's letting the roots show," says bandleader Big Sandy. Whether they're playing the Grand Ole Opry, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, or simply climbing out of a bus after rolling into your town, these guys are bringing us some great old-time rock and roll. The first lyric on their newest Yep Roc Records release, Turntable Matinee, commands us to "Drop the needle in the groove and start to move!" That opening track—"The Power of the 45, Part 1"—is a dance call to arms as well as a love song to the group's musical influences. Big Sandy sings a rapid roll call of diverse musical heroes: Junior Parker, Ronnie Dawson, Little Esther, Chuck Berry, Glen Glenn, Etta James, Johnny "Guitar" Watson. The list goes on, showing the respect the group has for the music they both listen to and create. "I think with this album we've gotten to the point where we fully and more accurately represent the full spectrum of what we were listening to when all of us were growing up," Big Sandy says. "I mean, when I was growing up in Southern California, a lot of the old R&B guys were still playing. The first show my parents took me to was Ray Charles. I used to go see Richard Berry, and Cliffie Stone still did a weekly talent show at the Palomino." This spectrum of early influence is clearly on display on Turntable Matinee, from the western swing of "(Yes) I Feel Sorry For You" to the old-time country of "Lonesome Dollar" and the spit-curl rockabilly of "The Power of the 45." This time around, though, the group has expanded their stylistic palette even further by delving into Stax-style Memphis soul on "Slipping Away" and even bossa nova on "Spanish Dagger," of which Big Sandy says, "It's another example of how I wanted to open up to different styles." The recording of Turntable Matinee found Big Sandy and company in a more relaxed studio setting than ever before. Over their last ten albums, the group has recorded in such hallowed musical ground as the Capital Records Studios (for the albums Jumping from 6 to 6 and Swingin' West, both produced by Grammy winner Dave Alvin) and Hollywood's classic Electro Vox Studios (for their last album It's Time!). For Turntable Matinee, however, Big Sandy said, "We were looking for a place that we could just come and go." They found just such a place in the studio of producer and friend D.E. Hannigan, whose studio made them feel at home indeed, considering it's built in the very house that bassist Jeff West grew up in. "I lived in it for my first ten years," West says. "Then I lived there again from the late 80s until '94, and now [Hannigan] lives there. The studio is in the garage." "Recording was different this time," Big Sandy said. "I feel like it was a bit more of a creative atmosphere, because we worked up all the songs in the studio. A good example of that was the song 'Spanish Dagger.' I wrote that song . . . Well, I met a girl at a car show we were playing, then I wrote the song the next day, and then we recorded it the day after that." In a voice reminiscent of Buddy Holly—sweet and smooth and sincere— Big Sandy delivers songs that double as musical short stories. "Haunted Heels," for example, tells the rockabilly tale of a woman who, whenever she dons a certain pair of black pumps, loses all control and stays out till the wee hours. West also contributes three standout tracks, "You Don't Know Me At All" (written by West, but sung by Big Sandy), "Lonesome Dollar," and "Mad," the last of which is a discourse on anger management about a man with a "short fuse" who just "gets MAD!" In addition to madman West, Big Sandy's longtime cohorts in his Fly-Rite Boys include Ashley Kingman on guitar, Bobby Trimble on the drums, and Lee Jeffriess on steel guitar. The band was formed in Anaheim in during the California roots revival of the late eighties, and at first were only a trio. That initial incarnation included Trimble on the drums and generated the group's first two albums (1990's Fly Right With and 1992's On The Go), but the addition of Jeffriess in 1991 led to the shift from trio to Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys. After a decade, Jeffriess took some time off to be with his family, but has now returned to the fold. His replacement for the past few years, the wonderful Jimmy Roy, is now spending time with his own family, but shared steel guitar duties with Jeffriess on Turntable Matinee. After spending so many years together, one might think the Fly-Rite Boys would be sick of each other, but Big Sandy says, "No no no. [When we're home] I still see those guys around town." Turntable Matinee showcases some top notch musicianship—from Trimble's subtle brushwork on the slow dance number "I Know I've Loved You Before" to the mindblowing guitar on "(Yes) I Feel Sorry For You," where Jeffriess and Kingman trade blistering solos between the steel and electric guitars. Turntable Matinee also features two musical guests: Dave "Kad" Kadison playing the horns on "Slipping Away," and Uncle Ernie Vargas from the Lonely Blue Boys playing a smoking piano solo on "Mad." Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys are almost always on the road, enough to burn through two tour buses in recent years. The first was a converted passenger bus from 1949 that they retired for use on an old movie set, followed only a few years later by a yellow 1950 school bus that they left for dead in Montana. "We're flying more now," says Big Sandy. But before the school bus died, Big Sandy tells the story of driving it to one particular thrift store: "There was a kid out in front, and he was just like in awe when we pulled up. He looked a little bit confused, and then we come walking up, and he wasn't sure if he should approach us or not. Then he asked us, 'Are you guys from the past?'" Big Sandy laughs. "As if we were traveling in a time machine or something." The group ascribes to a vintage aesthetic not only in vehicles, but also in gear -- from Kingman's 1957 custom Magnatone guitar to Jeff West's stand up bass and Trimble's vintage kit, these guys play instruments that were used when this style of music was just coming into existence. For many acts playing music of this era, there is a tendency to look no further than the novelty of the style. Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, however, have continued to transcend their genre the same way all iconic artists do—by creating music so good, songs that are so well-written, that the genre is simply a launching pad for the integrity of the art. This music is timeless. "Well, it's become that," Big Sandy said. "Once we got comfortable with the style of music we were playing, we made it our own." Turntable Matinee closes with a reprise of "The Power of the 45," in which Big Sandy sings, "Feel that rhythm in your soul, taking control. That's what keeps me alive, that's the power of the 45." Big Sandy isn't speaking just for himself; as you listen to him sing about his own love of the music, you can't help but fall in love with Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys too. Read more on Last.fm. 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