Jimmi Accardi, The Wild Cats - Live Jive! (2010)

Tracklist

01. Dance My Blues Away
02. Promises Of Love
03. I Can't Make You Love Me
04. Little Girl In the Rain
05. One More Try
06. Good To Me
07. I'm A Fool About You Baby
08. Don't You Wanna Be Mine, Girl?
09. What's Wrong With You?
10. Christina
11. Don't Break My Heart
12. Midnight Dream
13. Clubhouse Boogie

These performances were recorded at live shows in various California venues. Two of them were recorded on New Year's Eve, and you can hear the party revelers blowing their noisemakers and popping balloons. One song, "Midnight Dream", was written spontaneously as Jimmi was singing it, and luckily it got recorded. Jimmi is accompanied by his band The Wild Cats: Joe Thayer on bass, Doug Davies on sax, Craig Thomas on keyboard, and Mark Thayer, Ty Smith, or Mike Blackstone on drums. "Things happen on a gig that don't happen in a studio; the live, spontaneous playing sometimes goes to new and unexpected places. I chose the songs for this CD based on feel and spontaneity rather than technique and sound quality. If I thought a song was hoppin', I put it in... None of these shows were planned to be recorded. So this is as real as it gets. It's live and raw. I like it that way."

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