The Ditty Bops - Moon Over The Freeway
The Ditty Bops - Moon Over The Freeway
MP3 VBR 190 | 2006 | 55 MB
Lounge, Easy Listening, Pop, Swing, Jazz | Warner Bros | No Covers
Combining a magical attic’s worth of dusty musical idioms, iridescent golden harmonies and a quirky lyrical worldview, The Ditty Bops provide a refreshing antidote to the misbegotten, soul-grinding notion of thinking you know what happens next…. Abby DeWald (guitar) and Amanda Barrett (mandolin/dulcimer) embody the simple Saturday afternoon pleasures—of thrift store finds and getting lost in the library—with their amalgam of ragtime, jazz, vaudeville, Western swing and folk.
A singing duo of Amanda Barrett on mandolin and dulcimer, and Abby DeWald on guitar, this is the second release by The Ditty Bops. They draw liberally on genres of yore, hopping from western swing to vaudevillian theatrics, jazz, and folk music. They mine a vein similar to what Dan Hicks was doing with his Hot Licks in the early seventies, though their compositional sensibilities embrace a wider realm. Sympathetically produced by Mitchell Froom (who also plays keyboards, though the dazzling turn at the piano on "Aluminum Can" is by Greg Rutledge), they're joined by some of the finest players to be found in Los Angeles, including the ever-apt percussion of Elvis Costello's longtime drummer, Pete Thomas. While the title song opens the set on a quaint note, by the third number, "Fall Awake," it becomes clear that The Ditty Bops are not to be pigeonholed. The set's one cover, Boudleaux and Felice Bryant's "Bye Bye Love," is sweet but breaks the parade of their own resonant and mysterious songs.
Track Listing
1. Moon Over The Freeway
2. Angel With An Attitude
3. Fall Awake
4. Aluminum Can
5. Fish To Fry
6. In The Meantime
7. It's A Shame
8. Waking Up In The City
9. Growing Upside Down
10. Get Up 'N' Go
11. Bye Bye Love
12. Nosy Neighbor
13. Your Head's Too Big