Hmg Records
1998
Number One Hit Record!
About This Album
This first solo release from Deke Dickerson displays his fine ability as a guitarist able to leap from genre to genre while still retaining his own signature style. Recorded along with his band the Ecco-fonics -- Brent Harding on acoustic bass and background vocals, Johnny Noble providing second lead guitar, acoustic guitar and maracas, and percussionist Brian Nevill -- this project is a buffet table of sounds. With many special guests, among them renowned Nevada rockabilly legend Larry Collins of the Collins Kids, saxman Joey D'Ambrosio (who played sax with the original Bill Haley & The Comets), boogie-woogie piano player Carl "Sonny" Leyland, and Claude Trenier of the eternal R&B greats The Treniers. Also recruited for this project to add his distinctive Bakersfield Swing brand of steel guitar was Jeremy "J.W." Wakefield of the Hollywood & Western swing band the Lucky Stars. With seven Dickerson originals like "Can't See the Forest for the Trees," "What's That Cookin'," and an instrumental duet with Collins, "Jumpin' Bean," Dickerson proves his mettle. Covers of songs such as Freddie Hart's "Snatch It & Grab It" and The Treniers' 1952 hit "Poon-Tang" give this project a festive feel.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,6,9,15 and 16)

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