Back Pack Jones - Betsy's Kitchen - New Release Review
I just received the newest release, Betsy's Kitchen from Back Pack Jones and it's a cool bag of upbeat blues. Opening with shuffle track Riptide Baby , Big Mike Wallace takes the lead on vocals and Kirk Lonbom swings in with some cool guitar riffs. Backing vocals by drummer Harvey Horton and bassist Michael Baier add to the swing. A driving bass line from Baier also drives this train. I'm Just A Man has a cool jazzy beat and Albert King like guitar riffs from Lonbom. Wendell Day takes a cool organ solo on this track and horn work from Jim Culberston (trumpet), AJ Good (trumpet), Jarrod Hill (sax), Archer Logan (sax) and Lawrence Niehaus (trombone) really sets this track off. Fixin' To Leave is a BB King style slower blues track with clean original guitar riffs.I particularly like the vocal work on this track which may be my favorite track on the release. Sit back and just let is rip. Baggage has a Latin feel with stinging "Santana like" guitar riffs fro...