Album Notes

Canadian swing siren Alex Pangman sings from the perspective of a thirsty and frustrated ghost down south. "Last call is the last I recall/ I woke up dead with the glass I was holding/ one night I was having a ball/ the next my ball's done rolling" she laments while a funereal brass section begins, and then finishes in a celebratory mode. The 78 rpm issue came in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to raise money for Habitat for Humanity in 2006. The flip side finds composer "Colonel" Tom Parker & his Swinging Doors doing their own take of the same song as a swinging western combo that could scare up a drink for almost any old bones. Pressed in Nashville as a vinyl 78 rpm, it is almost certainly a "one of a kind" in the contemporary jazz genre and comes with a free digital download code on the album sleeve. A must have for Pangman completists and 78 and vinyl collectors alike.