New cd from Carolyn Martin: "Cookin' With Carolyn"

Carolyn Martin from the wonderful Time Jumpers now follows up her hit CD, entitled Swing, with another gem. Again, she surrounds herself with many talented musicians who are heard throughout this CD on various cuts.

The steel guitarists heard are Hall of Fame member Doug Jernigan as well as Chris Scruggs and former Time Jumper Johnny Cox. Current Time Jumper band-mate Jeff Taylor plays accordion and piano. Also playing piano are Beegie Adair and John England Western Swinger member, Neil Stretcher. John himself is heard on lead guitar on Carolyn and her husband, Dave Martin's great swinging tune That's What I Call Cookin'. Dave is heard on bass and vocal on Jeff Taylor's Cookin' With Carolyn Theme. On the drums is heard Tommy Wells and Jerry Krahn plays guitar and plectrum banjo. Billy Contreras and Paul Kramer play fiddle, Kat Bowser does harmony vocal and Rory Hoffman plays both electric guitar and accordion. Western Music's legendary vocal group, Riders in the Sky, join Carolyn on Johnny Mercer's Dream. Nora Jane Struthers also joins her on another Johnny Mercer standard, the Elton Britt and Rosalie Allen hit duet The Yodel Blues.

Piano player Beegie Adair shows her writing talent on Someday Soon Sweetheart while Pianist Neil Stretcher wrote Nothing Better to Do. Carolyn also brings back Spring Cleaning from the 1930's song writing team that gave us Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle. Other pop favorites reprised are If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake, Straighten Up and Fly Right and the Hoagy Carmichael/Ned Washington masterpiece Nearness of You. Fiddle Player Paul Kramer wrote It's All About You while Carolyn and Nora Jane penned Skillet Blues. Two more real gems are Rodgers and Hammerstein's People Will Say We're in Love from Broadway and Hollywood and the Western Swing Classic, Columbus Stockade Blues. The album closes with a 43 second reprise of Cookin' With Carolyn. This cd can or individual tracks can be downloaded at www.buckatune.net (reprint from http://www.swinginwest.com/reviews.htm)