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Remember the times at the end of the 1990s during Swing revival craze when Neo Swing combos mushroomed? Cherry Poppin' Daddies were one of these bands and they just released a new album going back to the roots.
White Teeth, Black Thoughts
Release date: July 16, 2013
Available media: CD (Standard and 2CD Deluxe edition) and AAC/mp3 downloads
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About Cherry Poppin' Daddies
“You can’t fake something that’s fine,” says Steve Perry, founder and frontman of the one and only Cherry Poppin’ Daddies.
Masters of both extraordinary elegance and bird-flipping fury, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies are indeed the real deal.
Ever impossible to pigeonhole, White Teeth, Black Thoughts sees the Eugene, Oregon-based big band pushing themselves to the outer limits of inspiration and invention, resulting in two-count ‘em-two distinctive collections.
The primary album marks CPD’s first jazz and swing-powered outing in more than a decade, while the exhilarating bonus disc is built upon a twisted frame of guitar-slinging rock ‘n’ roll.
Perry once again affirms his standing as a songwriter, bandleader, and bomb thrower of the first order with songs like the defiant “I Love American Music,” utilizing deeply embedded textures of the past to directly and provocatively face up to our present and future.
As brave and articulate as it is boisterous and celebratory, Cherry Poppin' Daddies’ White Teeth, Black Thoughts is the souped-up, swinging sound of America’s dance band playing as the ship goes down.
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Tracklist
- [easyazon-image align=”right” asin=”B00CWA486S” locale=”us” height=”500″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uw%2Batwz7L.jpg” width=”220″]The Babooch
- I Love American Music
- Whiskey Jack
- Doug The Jitterbug
- White Teeth, Black Thoughts
- Brown Flight Jacket
- Bloodshot Eyes
- Jakes Frilly Panties
- Huffin' Muggles
- I Want A Bowlegged Woman
- Concrete Man Blues
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I know that some of you will think this is not swing music but I want to be open-minded here on the website (not necessarily as a Swing DJ, though).
In fact, Cherry Poppin' Daddies' music was quite big when I started dancing in 1999 and that's why I published their new album release.
What do you think about “Neo Swing”? And more important, will you include some of these new songs in your DJ sets? Let's start a discussion here. Leave your thoughts in the comment section below!
Most of the time, I don’t like Neo Swing.
it’s too flat, too un-swing!
of course, sometimes I prefere a cleaner sound, that 1938 records can not give you… thoses times, I turn myself to the new SWING artists!
”new” artists, like Gordon Webster, Meshia Lake, The Smoking Time Jazz Club, and such !! 🙂
this applies to lindy nights.
When I know that more than half my crowd like to dance to rockabilly jive, and that thew like jive more than charleston, balboa, lindy… well, I put some Chuck Berry, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Brian Setzer, and such… ^^
For me it’s quite the same, I NEVER play neo-swing at swing dance nights, but maybe at some theme nights outside of the dance scene.
Most of the time, ‘neoswing’ doesn’t actually feel like swing music to me- its often got a more square, rock & roll feel, so it doesn’t make me want to dance lindy (or bal). I *have* seen some really great boogie woogie and shag to neoswing music though, so I’m curious what dancers who primarily do those other styles think…
I think I read sometime ago a paper: they theorized that neoswing was good for the revival of Swing dancing and Lindy Hop in the nineties because created a new “enviroment” for dancing, but that the two elements actually belonged to two very different worlds: the musicians/listeners were more ex-punk-ska-rockers who loved the smokey atmosphere, the exaggerated dress-ups and the achool-drinking as well the exciting and hot chaotic music; the lindy hoppers were more about water-drinking, safe-couplefriendly nights, big woody dancefloors and slower tempo music. I feel like this kind of music is totally fun and exciting, but I’d put this tunes on only at the end of the night, because I know that the most open-minded punky friends would be there and able to appreciate it and just have fun.
I DO like newer, cleaner sounds, as Katleen pointed out yesterday, but I’d go with NOLA-like street bands instead.
I feel like every music who speaks to dancers has roots, and these roots have to be the same in order to fully understand and interact with each other.
That’s interesting Lucie. Any chance to find the source of that paper?
Yes, indeed. they call me Lindynerd, after all 😀
The paper was the interesting Unruh’s “Swingin’ Out White: How the Lindy Hop Became White”, the particular lines about neo-swing were taken from another study: Renshaw, Scott W. “Postmodern Swing Dance and the Presentation of the Unique Self.” Here’s a quote:
[Interestingly, these participants in the revival seem more concerned with rebellion, fashion, and drinking than the aesthetics of swing music or dance. In fact, in Renshaw’s study of the modern swing scene in Phoenix, Arizona, the originators of the swing revival showed great dissatisfaction for the scene once swing became mainstream – particularly when “dance geeks” got involved. These “dance geeks” came primarily with the purpose of learning the dance: “As the scene transformed, the socializing was primarily about the dancing. Swing as a lifestyle, once characterized by retro-vintage dressing, drinking, smoking, and club socializing, gave way
to a cleaner more mainstream brand of socializing. Many of the new Swing dancers were just that, dancers. They danced, and they drank very little”.]
Wow, thanks so much, didn’t know that paper!
I used to live in Corvallis, Oregon, just about 40 miles from Eugene, the home of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. They did not start out as a neoswing band, but as a rock band playing a blend of ska, punk, funk, and rock. They switched to playing neo swing entirely during the first wave of retro swing. It is funny that the main hall they played at in Eugene during those days, The WOW Hall, did not like their sexist name and would only allow them to perform under the name “The Daddies.” So the band was called “The Daddies” in Eugene and “The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies” everywhere else!