Track Listing

1. Busy Woman's Blues, The
2. Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing
3. Big Fine Daddy
4. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
5. Now or Never
6. I've Got A Feelin'
7. Roll the Boogie
8. Honey Pie
9. I Want a Little Boy
10. Blow Me a Fat Note
11. Voo-It
12. He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped
13. Hootie Blues
14. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
15. Sent For You Yesterday
16. Winter Wonderland [Special Bonus Christmas Track]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24515 in Music
• Released on: 2000-03-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .14 pounds

Amazon.com
And just like that, the "swing thing" disappeared. Of course, San Francisco's Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers were at it years before the revival took hold and were always a cut above the rest of the pack anyway. That's because Smith and her pianist and musical director Chris Siebert have such a deep wealth of musical knowledge to draw on, the courage and good taste to recruit world-class veteran players from across the jazz world, and a passion and respect for the style of music they play. Boasting a buoyant mix of boogie-woogie, jump blues, sophisticated swing, and even bebop, 2000's Everybody's Talkin' follows up their enormously successful indie debut, One Hour Mama, which sold nearly 40,000 copies in the 3 years after its release on their own Fat Note label. The crafty arrangements, courtesy of Siebert and big-time Ellington expert David Berger, never get in the way of momentum or mood. It all revolves around Smith's versatile voice, which can convey strength and vulnerability, innocence and smut, sweetness and wickedness--often all at once. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

The Real Deal Mack!
When Johnny Otis gave his blessings to Lavay and the boys a few years ago it just confirmed what saavy listeners in the Bay area knew already. They smoke! This CD is a great sophomore effort (avoiding the dread slump afflicting so many bands in almost every genre). Great song selections, arrangements, lush vocals with just the right amount of bite by Lavay and a joyous swing vibe throughout. If you don't want to dance to this music, you must be dead. Also a serious tip of the hat for the superb analog like (meant in the best sense) sound quality, it's HDCD mastered by Paul Stubblebine (an SF audio engineer legend). Buy this CD, take your significant other out for a spin and enjoy a glorious Spring season.

Someone to carry on the tradition of Helen Humes...
In the tradition of great jazz, R&B, and blues singer Helen Humes, Lavay Smith carries on where Humes left off when she passed away not all that long ago. Smith has a saucy way of singing much like Bessie Smith and the Smith girls(Mamie, Clara, & Trixie. all unrelated) Smith sings a lyric with feeling, weather it be seductive, humorous or raunchy. Though hr 1st CD "One Hour Mama" was more the the traditional blues, her newest release "Miss Thang" is more in the 40's R&B style, where Smith pays tribute to Humes with "Voo-It" and she also pays tribute to Mr. Five by Five Jimmy Rushing in "Sent For You Yesturday." If you want to hear a new jazz/bluus singer who truly can swing and sing in the tradition of the real thing(1920's-40's), go see Lavay smith next time she's in town, and buy all her Cd's. Her backup band can play anything from classic blues to be-bop oriented material. If you are into jazz this is for you. Lavay Smith & her red hot skillet lickers are the best new(meaning old 20's, sounding) thing today, they are great.

Swingin' Good Time!!!!

I bought this CD on a whim - having never owned a swing album - and I have not regretted it for one second! The creativity in the band name alone is worth 5 stars! Lavay Smith's smokin' hot vocals will hook you from the get-go and the musicians are equally as incredible sounding. My personal favorite songs are the upbeat "Big Fine Daddy", the sultry "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You" and "He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped", but there is not a bad song on this CD. It is the one CD that everyone who has heard it wants to borrow from my collection.