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.