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Described by Hot Press journalist Dermott Hayes as “The Hottest Honky Tonk Band East of the Pecos”, Chris Meehan and His Redneck Friends is a band that embraces country music in all its many forms. The line-up consists of Chris Meehan, piano/vocal, Bobby Kelly, acoustic guitar/vocal, Eamon Murray, tenor sax, Brian Harris and Francie Lenehan, electric guitars, Percy Robinson, pedal steel guitar, Matt Cranitch, fiddle, Gerry O’Connor, viola/mandola, Ronnie O’Flynn, bass and Mick O’Connor, drums.
Dancing in the Kitchen is a joyful love letter testifying to the devotion to country and blues of a bunch of rusty old geezers who clearly never have lost their grá for the music. Well marshaled by noted Nashville producer Jim Rooney, sharp pianist and legal eagle Chris Meehan and his crew skillfully negotiate country waltzes, western swing, Cajun craic, jump blues, jazz and Americana standards coloured by a dizzying array of sharp solos by the likes of guitarists Francie Lenehan and Brian Harris, steel guitarist Percy Robinson and sax & harp wizard Eamon Murray. Meehan’s song selection is bang on, ranging from the playful Diggy Liggy Lo to Percy Mayfield’s profound Please Send Me Someone to Love. This is an Irish album that, with some flourish, nails the essence of Americana.
Track listing:
1. Bubbles in my Beer
2. Drivin’ my Life Away
3. I always knew that you were the one (Instrumental)
4. The bottle let me down
5. Hot Dog
6. Diggy Liggy Lo
7. To make love sweeter for you
8. Steel Guitar Rag
9. Body and Soul
10. The Claw
11. Please send me someone to love
12. Ain’t Livin Long Like this
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