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...Cherry Poppin' Daddies are a swing-oriented band from Seattle, currently riding high on the success of their latest album, a compilation titled Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. Before their show at the Roxy last Friday night, The Crimson got the chance to talk with Jason Moss, the band's guitarist...
...your weekend off to a swingin' start with the masters of modern jive themselves. The novelty of the jitterbug shows no signs of wearing off any time soon and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies are still going strong. Catch them at the Roxy for yet another stimulating Swing Night. 9 p.m. 279 Tremont St. 338-7699. $10 Cover...
This, really, is my point: masterpieces--like Songs for Swingin' Lovers!--are easy to love. They are what we remember artists for, but they aren't always as illuminating, or as cherishable, as the failures and throwaways. More often than not, even Sinatra's crud speaks his virtues. You can't ask much more of a performer than that...
...about music were incubated while listening to Jethro Tull albums (whoa--a flute!). Sinatra's body of work, meanwhile, stretches back to the 1930s and is nothing less than "the final statement on pre-rock pop," as Will Friedwald, the invaluable Sinatra scholar, recently wrote of the Songs for Swingin' Lovers! album, released in 1956 and generally considered Sinatra's finest LP. "Something radically different just had to come next," Friedwald continues, "because nothing in the realm of Tin Pan Alley could top this bravura celebration of grown-up love." You can't sum up Sinatra's achievement more succinctly...
There was a time when I would have been more skeptical. In 1993, shortly after the New York Times published a glossary of grunge slang from Seattle, a journal called the Baffler claimed that a prankster had hoodwinked the Times with the notion that grungesters used "swingin' on the flippity-flop" to mean hanging around, and said "harsh realm" rather than "bummer." I was forced to admit publicly that if I hadn't happened to read the Baffler just before a trip to Seattle, which was sure to include some browsing at the mother church of Eddie Bauer, I might...