Great Day in the Morning
Great Day In The Morning! “Don’t want those apocalyptic views, no time for that doom and gloom news.” We’ll it’s certain that we all need to turn the corner—in fact, our session for this record was postponed due to hurricane Sandy. So—with the help of Margey Peters—I whipped up a batch of new songs, and chose three tunes I’ve always loved*, for what has to be positively our most feel-good album yet! I play more bottleneck than ever on this recording. We dip into a variety of feels. Of course we play the blues. I wrote a new one, “Sit Down And Talk”, as well as covering Tampa Red’s “Anna Lou”, which is the antecedent of “Anna Lee”, and possibly the first song to “Go to Louisiana and get me a mojo hand”. (You’ll hear that in the bridge.) There’s folk blues, some fun swings and rags, and even one song with a Soca flavor, “It’s A Good Life”. And of course, good old American roots ‘n’ roll! I gathered some of my favorite musicians—who also happen to be some of the world’s nicest people—and went into producer Dav
