David Olney

"The album gets off to a ROLLICKING start with a pair of tracks INSPRIRED by both musical personalities of Memphis¹ legendary Sun Records: 'Whistle Blow,' a gritty blues number on which Olney blows harmonica through a Wurlitzer piano speaker, and 'Sweet Poison,' a FIERCE rockabilly number
propelled by onetime Johnny Cash sideman Dave Roe¹s slap bass. From there the album takes a turn into an amalgamation of pre-World War II as Olney stitches together BLUES, HILLBILLY and NEW ORLEANS influences. The latter shines through on 'Who¹s the Dummy Now?,' a song in which a ventriloquist is taken to task by his disgruntled dummy. With Olney¹s guitar and ukulele backed by tuba, clarinet, trombone, piano and banjo, the track sets the tone for the rest of the album, sounding all the world like a jazzy combo from the 1930s. Tracks such as 'Oh Yeah (Dead Man¹s Shoes),' 'Sweet Potato' and the mysteriously loopy 'Postcard From Mexico' display the same type of aesthetic, relying on UNBRIDLED ENERGY and the ensemble¹s SENSE OF ADVENTURE." -- Jim McGuinness, Kingsport (TN) Times News