Masterful, versatile guitarist and singer songwriter Mike Dowling is truly a player's player. Dowling's new CD realease on Strictly Country Records was recorded with a band of Nashville pickers including Mark Schatz on bass and fiddling great Vassar Clements. Bluegrass Unlimited, while issuing a disclaimer that "Beats Workin'" surely isn't bluegrass... "It's not even close, except that it swings, it's jazzy, it's bluesy, it jumps, strides and rags and it reaches right out and grabs you..." pronounced the album a 'pure delight'. When you've experienced this lively mix of Dowling originals and country blues and swing classics, you will too. (See SCR 39 for more information.) MIKE DOWLING guitars, vocals MARK SCHATZ bass BOB HOBAN piano PAUL ANASTATIO fiddle VASSAR CLEMENTS fiddle Tracklisting: 1. Police Dog Blues 2. The Train That Carried My Girl From Town 3. Beats Workin' 4. D.W. Washington 5. Ace in the Hole 6. Ian's Song 7. Louis Collins 8. Lonely at the Bottom 9. Jitterbug Waltz 10. Bottleneck March 11. Nothin' Could Be Better 12. Jump, Children |
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