5/18/2023 0 Comments Swing it brother swing![]() ![]() This first offering from Ray's new Ricochets band showed no major style shift.the same heartland music,perhaps a little more rocky without the fiddle player,but (aided by RC's tenor sax) more assuredly spreading out to the jazzy colonies of western swing.and swing it most certainly does,romping through the likes of Hank Penny's 'Hadicillin Boogie'the Count Basie title track and a billyrippin'(Carl Perkins')'Rockin'record hop'.Even balancing ballady bits don't slow up this collection,they fit.the whole thing fits,and it's no surprise this CD was well received on release in 1996. The young Benny Goodman did well at school, not least in music, with his parents encouraging him all the way, as they would his bass playing brother, Harry Goodman, a fine bass player, who spent. When Ray Condo closed out his Hardrock Goners band in 1993 it wasn't down to 'musical differences'or any of those kiddybrain ego issues that have plagued front men down the decades, no,he just wanted to vary the approach to his music.Ray Condo's music was mostly the post war American working man's Saturday night dance fare.tunes and artists unknown in New York or Los Angeles,or even the increasingly syrup-sopping Nashville.but beloved of the plain folks who fed their nickels into countrywide jukeboxes for a little lift after a day's labours.
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