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UnknownApr 2009

cs needs a catagory for swing music this album is pure swing dont miss tracks "the suits are picking up the bill " done in a dixieland brass band style and "the ghost of steven foster " hear it to believe it lol

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Media Type: CD
Artist: SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS
Title: PERENNIAL FAVORITES
Street Release Date: 08/04/1998
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Recorded over a year before its release and put on hold thanks to the phenomenal ride of 1996's Hot, their third release is where the jazz-hoppin' Squirrel Nut Zippers separate from the rest of the nostalgic Voodoo Cherry Daddy pack. Perennial Favorites covers a lot of ground: aching balladry ("Low Down Man," complete with pedal steel and intoned lovingly by chanteuse Katharine Whalen), hilarious show-tune homages ("Ghost of Stephen Foster"), romping props to the past ("Pallin' with Al," a nod to guitarist Al Casey). Thanks to imaginative arrangements, "The Kraken" and "My Drag" transcend retro hipness to forge unique sonic paths. "Suits Are Picking Up the Bill," a zingy diatribe on capitalism, may not turn out to be a smash hit like the earlier "Hell," but these Favorites should endure. --Don Harrison