[Dixielandjazz] Is New Orleans Jazz coming back?

[Stephen G Barbone]

Hi Ginny:

Try Sick's Pack at their myspace page:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=184171015

Listen to "Ode to Bitches", or "Teeth". <grin>  Several of our female  
swing dance fans love Ode To Bitches which is very danceable.
Violinist Sick used to be the lead violin with Asylum Street.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband


On Mar 23, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Gluetje1 at aol.com wrote:

> I only know Loose Marbles via YouTube--but really enjoyed those.   
> Made a 400 mile round trip to see The Asylum Street Spankers after  
> watching them on YouTube.  They opened with a known high energy OKUM  
> number--(it might have been "Yes Sir, That's My Baby") to the roar  
> of a young mid-aged crowd in a well-known biker's bar.  Wammo, co-- 
> leader of the group writes almost all their stuff and says he  
> intentionally tries to write music that "sounds like other  
> music" (that sells).  Even before I knew they got their start in  
> Austin in a bar on Asylum Street I took it that a big part of their  
> roots was Western Swing.  And Christina Marrs, the other leader- 
> writer----her live blues renditions all time memorable for me.  But  
> then there were no weak members in the group the evening I saw  
> them.  Would make another drive like that to see them in a minute.
>
>   Just found one video of Sick's Pack on YouTube, listed for about a  
> minute--nothing struck me as anything but heavy metal so shut it down.
> Ginny
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