Eight to the Bar You Call This Swing? Tracks: 1. Rock and Roll 2. Hello, I Love You 3. Living in the Usa 4. Rag Doll 5. Synchronicity Ii 6. White Rabbit 7. Ticket to Ride 8. Low Down 9. Satisfaction 10. Young Americans 11. Foxey Lady 12. I Want You Line up: Cynthia Lyon - keyboard players, vocals Collin Tilton - tenor sax, flute Michael Corsini - bass, vocals Tom Whalen - guitar, vocals Megan Keith - vocals David Keith - drums Record Label / Year of Release: Jitterbop Records 2005 Notes: What happens when swing and rock collide? You get our new CD, "You Call This Swing?" We've taken 12 of the world's best-known rock classics, broken them down and recreated them as swing tunes. Swingers love them, rockers love them, you'll love them! Listening to Eight to the Bar is a lot like driving along a time-warped highway precisely halfway between Count Basie's Kansas City and Fat's Waller's Harlem, where the car radio picks up everything from "Take the A Train" to "Boogie Woogie Boy of Company B". Their material, like their outlandish wardrobes and onstage choreo, is a colorful mix of forties jive and swing, fifties jump blues, and their own swing influenced tunes. With their 4 part female and male vocals, saxophone, guitar, bass, keyboards and drums, this unique sextet pack a musical and visual wallop not seen in New England since the group's inception in 1975. Since that time they have released 7 records, have appeared national on HBO and VH-1 and have excited audiences from London to L.A. At this time the band has just released its seventh album, "Hey, Sailor!" and is going on its second European tour in April, 2002. |