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The Naughty Ones
"I Dig Your Voodoo!"
The Naughty Ones, 1994

     Just before the Swing and Cocktail revival hit big, there were bands like The Naughty Ones,fromAustin, Texas, grinding out the classics with a hipster's swagger and a lounge lizard's croon. You can think about this disc as the wallpaper for your own personal noir flick. I Dig Your Voodoo is a mixture of mambo swing and hot-rod cool jazz, mixed in a martini shaker and served in a wide glass with a lemon twist. There are some great vocal tracks like the title track, the swinger standard "the Walkin' Blues," "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams," and the infectious "Skiddy-Wo." They also take be-bop standards like Bird's "Billies Bounce," Monk's "Well You Needn't," and "Harlem Nocturne," and put a touch of guitar grind behind them. In this record you can hear both the echoes of the greats like Mancini and Baxtor and hints of sounds to come, like Royal Crown Revue, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and the Brian Setzer Orchestra. When you get this disc, make sure you take a gander at the band photos. Everyone is a bongo-carrying, slick-suit wearing, sunglassed cool cat. Add to that a credit for two cheesecakes who position is the band is simply "naughty dancing." 


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