Brian Setzer Orchestra - Best Of The Big Band

Album: Best Of The Big Band
Size: 141,9 MB
Time: 60:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Jump Blues/Swing/Rockabilly
Art: Front, tray

1. Gettin' In The Mood (3:12)
2. Rumble In Brighton (3:35)
3. This Cat's On A Hot Tin Roof (2:18)
4. Jump, Jive An' Wail (2:53)
5. Sexy, Sexy (2:14)
6. Sleepwalk (3:48)
7. Stray Cat Strut (3:37)
8. Rock This Town (6:37)
9. The Dirty Boogie (3:14)
10. Brand New Cadillac (3:36)
11. Hoodoo Voodoo Doll (3:39)
12. Lady Luck (2:57)
13. Caravan (2:26)
14. Pennsylvania 6-5000 (3:05)
15. Americano (3:02)
16. El Diablo (3:15)
17. Scatman Jack (4:05)
18. The House Is Rockin' (3:03)

Every decade has its own retro craze spearheaded by a true believer who brings classic sounds and style back into vogue. Brian Setzer performed this trick not just once but twice, first as the leader of the Stray Cats, the trio that brought rockabilly back into the charts during the '80s, then he helped popularize the swing revival of the '90s with the Brian Setzer Orchestra. Both of these sounds were grounded in the '50s - that's when rockabilly was born but also the heyday of the kind of jump blues Setzer loved, music by Louis Prima and Big Joe Turner - and while the Stray Cats were purists of sorts, indebted to the big beat of Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent, as a solo act Setzer wound up fusing these aesthetics together, playing rockabilly guitar to a swinging beat.

With this jumping sound, he cultivated a loyal following - consisting of not a few latter-day disciples - that stretched well into the new millennium, developing the long-running, successful career that many of his idols never had. /Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic

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