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...feeling at The Roxy last Saturday night. Coming off their best-selling album Zoot Suit Riot and the hit single of the same name, 1998 has been a good year for the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the Seattle-based band that mixes a swing-oriented style with genres such as ska and punk to create their own unique sound...
...splits throughout the entire set, singing all the while. Amidst their big swing hits--the current single "Brown Derby Jump," as well as "Ding Dong," "Daddy of the D-Car Line" and "When I Change Your Mind"--the Daddies interspersed their earlier work, often songs that were more ska or even punk than swing...
...Earlier on, there seemed to be more of a rock or ska tone to your albums. What changed...
...attention to such a degree that you had this one kind of sound on the radio for several years. And then in the last couple of years it kind of died out and it really opened up a lot of space for other types of music to come through. Ska was something that was happening and that kind of blew up there, for a while...and then swing was kind of the next step. It has more horns, it's dance music...and I think also, it's kind of the antidote to grunge. It's a very different sensibility...
...They'd say, "You guys are great, but what are you? Are you a rock band? Are you a swing band?" So I think over time, partly out of necessity and partly out of taste, we got tired of some the other stuff and started to focus more on ska and swing...