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Album Review
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers: Everybody's Talking 'Bout Miss Thing!
by Todd R. Brown
The follow-up to Lavay Smith's 1996 album One Hot Mama" surely has been long anticipated by Bay area fans of the retro-lounge scene. But Miss Thing" is much more than just another neo-swing blast of recycled past.Smith and the Skillet Lickers really turn up the soul on this album, and the litany of brass players make Miss Thing" a considerable contemporary jazz album -- regardless of the kitschy reputation that hangs over many of today's big ...
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