Who'd have thought that former rockabilly bad boy Brian Setzer's fondest dream was to lead a swinging big band? Setzer and his 17-piece band strut through a set of standards...
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Upon disbanding the Stray Cats, Brian Setzer reinvented himself as a heartland rocker much in the vein of John Mellencamp or Bruce Springsteen; his solo debut, The Knife...
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On his second Orchestra album and fourth solo album overall, Brian Setzer extends the genre exercise in jump blues he first tackled on The Brian Setzer Orchestra album. Of...
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Rock This Town is the fourth disc of live material Collectables released from Brian Setzer & the Tom Cats. Unsurprisingly, it's quite similar to those that came before,...
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Like all the other discs in Collectables' exhaustive reissue of Brian Setzer & the Tom Cats' material, High School Confidential is an entertaining collection of high-energy...
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Stray Cat Strut is one of the more exciting entries in Collectables' seven discs of live recordings from Brian Setzer & the Tom Cats, featuring dynamic covers of "Susie Q,"...
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Collectables' exhaustive reissue of live performances from Brian Setzer & the Tom Cats draws to a close with Rip It Up. Like the other discs in the series, the album...
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During the late '70s, before he formed the Stray Cats and moved to England, Brian Setzer was playing with two separate bands in New York City. One was the Bloodless...
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Shake, Rattle & Roll, the second installment of Collectables' seven-disc Brian Setzer & the Tom Cats reissue series, is a 14-song set the band recorded at TK's in New York...
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Rockabilly Boogie, the third Brian Setzer and the Tom Cats disc released by Collectables, concentrates more on original material than the first two, featuring two takes of...
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Well, he gets a great guitar tone, and he can play real fast, which is cool since fast guitar players are infinitely more fun than the ones who only play one or two notes...
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Evidently, Brian Setzer doesn't take the jump blues and swing of the Brian Setzer Orchestra as a joke. Dirty Boogie is his third album with his large band, and instead of...
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Some people probably really like this kind of stuff. To whom I'd like to politely ask: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? No one willingly submits to listening to...
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It makes sense that Capitol released The Brian Setzer Collection 1981-1988 in late 1999, since Setzer was riding an unexpected comeback powered by his cover of Louis Prima's...
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Brian Setzer has enjoyed a 20-year career as pop music's most consistent champion of rockabilly, first as the leader of the Stray Cats in the 80s, followed by solo stints,...
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Mediocrity has become the bane of our existence. And the sheer volume of it in music is numbing. I don't mean horrible music--at least those CDs stand out. It's the glut of...
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After retreating to his big-band persona for 2002's Boogie Woogie Christmas, Setzer drops the horns for a leaner, more eclectic sound on this 2003 release. There is...
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After disbanding his retro-rockabilly crew the Stray Cats, Brian Setzer reinvented himself as a retro-swing big-band leader with the Brian Setzer Orchestra in the early...
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Brian Setzer takes his horn-fueled big band on a sleigh ride into Christmas/holiday music with generally impressive results. Meshing his rockabilly guitar solos with brassy...
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Say what you want about Brian Setzer and his cool retro-swing, but the man can not only play the hell out of a guitar, he can lead a big band like a pro, singing and playing...
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