Hot Lunch, by Asylum Street Spankers

album name: Hot Lunch
band name: by Asylum Street Spankers

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1.	Cakewalk 03:11	download
2.	I Don't Wanna 03:41	download
3.	Trippin' Over You 03:59	download
4.	U.F.O. Attack 02:35	download
5.	If I Were You 03:48	download
6.	Colonel Josh's B.B.Q. 03:12	download
7.	Hot Lunch 04:12	download
8.	Blue Prelude 05:23	download
9.	Smells Like Thirty-Something 03:03	download
10.	Fanny 02:39	download
11.	Island Angel 04:57	download
12.	A Smo-o-oth One 07:06	download
13.	Bijou 03:07	download
14.	Sad Bomber 04:04	download
15.	New Jazz Fiddle 02:39	download
16.	Asylum Street Blues 03:38	download

about: This, Asylum Street Spankers' sophomore recording, breezes in on acoustic guitar and ukulele strains and the words "Life ain't a cakewalk, it's a waltz/And they're playing my music out of time" - and it only gets better from there.

Indeed, the Asylum Street Spankers, a loose, unplugged collective of Austin, TX, pickers and bon vivants, seem to have little trouble, on Hot Lunch's 16 cuts, deftly blending virtuosic musicianship with seemingly effortless musical and lyrical wit.

The band flits between ragtime, country, old-style am radio pop tunes, swing, and country-blues with equal ease.

The Spankers - particularly on such puckish, narrative cuts as "Trippin' Over You," "Sad Bomber," and others - manage to walk the razor thin line between novelty and just plain fun-lovin' jamboree frolics.

It's this graceful self-awareness that separates Asylum Street Spankers from such less graceful musical revivalists as the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

In fact, on the cut "Smells Like Thirty-Something," the Spankers seem to, well, spank the mid-'90s swing revival craze on its rump, chiding, atop a rollicking, bluesy riff, "I like martinis/and I like cigars/But I hate martini and cigar bars." Somewhere between that sense of humor and vocalist/instrumentalist (for every Spanker is a multi-instrumentalist) Christina Marrs' sublime vocals lies the charm of Asylum Street Spankers as expressed in these grooves. ( - Chris Handyside, AllMusic Guide)
credits: released 23 February 1999
tags: tags: acoustic alt-country americana folk blues Austin
license: All rights reserved
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The magnificently indefinable Asylum Street Spankers stand as one of America's most distinctive groups. Defiantly acoustic, ... more fiercely independent and absurdly good, one reviewer aptly described them as "a roots-rock riddle, nestled in a satirical Vaudeville enigma, packaged in an old-timey radio-show puzzle and slathered with hippie-fried mystery sauce." less