HOMETOWN STOMP :
Andy Baylor and the West Melbourne All-Stars

This collection of music was the result of two days recording at Barry Stockley’s Fatsound Studio in West Melbourne, August 23rd/24th 2004 ….just up the road from Festival Hall, where many of the greats have stomped it off over the years…..There is a selection of blues, stomps, boogie woogies mixed with tex mex, country ballads, fiddle tunes and cool instrumentals……all designed for your dancing and listening pleasure. Hope you dig it all.

Andy Baylor: vocals, guitars, fiddle
Joel Davis: drums, percussion
Andy Scott: double bass
Steven Grant: accordian, alto sax
Rick Dempster: harmonica, dobro, steel guitar
Sam Lemann: electric guitar
Denis Close: percussion
Ed Bates: dobro, pedal steel
Peter Baylor: guitars
Barry Stockley: recording, engineering,technical assistance

Disc 1
1 Hometown stomp: an original fiddle tune from Andy which echoes both Cajun dance music from Louisiana as well as old-timey Appalachian fiddle music… Rick on non-pedal steel, Steve on accordion, fiddle and guitar… a call to party
2 Baby Boogie woogie all night long: a stomp in the style of John Lee Hooker…. de-tuned guitar, voice and drums
3 Lets get high: an old Roscoe Gorden jump blues party thing, recorded in the famous Sun Studios in about 1953…hip hillbilly hangover jive….Steve plays alto sax
4 Who were you thinking of: Tex Mex treatment of an old pop tune from 60’s hit parade…I learned it, from Texan legend Flaco Jimenez when he played it on his only tour of Australia in 1992 .. the famous “beer and kangaroos tour”…twin guitars with Sam
5 Ready Willing and Able: this one comes from Fats Domino and we give it a rockin’ Cajun feel with the fiddle and accordian
6 Sweet Love….we can play both kinds of music…this song was written by the brilliant but tragic Hank Williams
7 Wee Midnight Hour Blues: drums, guitar and vocal. I learned it, from an old, old Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell recording …late night feel in the key of blue.
8 Frogs Legs #1: can you do it? Funky dance music blues in G
9 People Gonna Talk: funky pop song originally recorded by Lee Dorsey....nothing like a bit of hometown gossip....by the way you'll never guess who dropped by the studio that night
10 Fiddle sticks: made up on the spot in the style of Dewey Balfa, great Cajun fiddler…Joel is actually playing percussion on the fiddle
11 Cryin my Heart out: another country ballad originally recorded by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
12 Black Gal: an old jukebox hit learned from zydeco king, Clifton Chenier with his brother on fiddle
13 All night Boogie: hillbilly boogie woogie time
14 Chitlin con carne: a funky blues from one of my favourite jazz guitarists, Kenny Burrell….that’s Ed on pedal steel and Steve on alto sax.

Disc 2
1 West Melbourne special: I cooked up this happy sounding dance tune one rainy Melbourne night on the fiddle….touch of Cajun, high-life and celtic fiddle music
2 This Is Hip: hometown homage to John Lee Hooker
3 T model boogie: an automobilin’-type boogie woogie thing originally recorded in 50’s at Sun studios by Roscoe Gorden
4 Shake it up and go: two- beat blues in the style of Lightnin’Hopkins’ “Bottle up and go” with a bit of John Lee thrown in….no matter how old you get ,you just got to keep on rockin’…just like Lightenin’ and John Lee
5 Honest I Do: Jimmy Reed’s blues/soul ballad given a tex mex feel
6 Cool Little Car: retro-auto-driveabilly boogie woogie blues originally recorded by John Lee Hooker
7 Honky Tonkin: Hank Williams classic
8 Camooweal: this country ballad was originally recorded by Slim Dusty, words by Mack Cormack
9 Jammin with Joel: spontaneous surfabilly… rockin’ blues
10 May you never be alone: another Hank Williams song….sad, poetic and quoting the bible…he really was something
11 Frogs Legs# 3: drink some scotch and move up a notch, up tempo version…. now can you do it?
12 In the evening: reflective 8 bar blues from 1930’s blues genius Leroy Carr
13 Marie Elena: Master wedding guitarist Sam Lemann with his late-at- night treatment of the classic pop hit.

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