Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

There's no doubting BBVD's dedication to the Big Band sounds of the past. On this record, they knock out New Orleans-style early jazz and noir-inspired narratives with good humor and admirable amounts of energy. Songs such as "You Know You're Wrong" and "Save My Soul" conjure up the ghosts of old time Bourbon Street.

The late-Nineties neo-swing movement failed, in part, because communicating
octogenarian ballroom dancers' beloved music to punk-loving teenagers is a difficult trick.
But a perhaps more fundamental reason involves singers -- classic big-band swing had Frank
Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, while the recent stuff stars Brian Setzer and Big
Bad Voodoo Daddy's one-dimensional Scotty Morris. Save My Soul, the Los Angel... More >