Firstly, there´s a brilliant rhythm section which provides the whole album with a great backbeat that I have never heard before. The other three musicians are in no way inferior to that and convince with fantastic solos on vibes, steel and guitar. This upbeat music is extremely fun. I would rather give 6 stars for that and I hope they will record a new CD soon. See also The Lucky Stars here on CD Baby who partly consist of the same musicians.

Since I watched the DVD "West Coast Ramble vol. 2" on which they play 2 songs I was very excited about this band. Actually, with such a cast, any lover of good music should be. The line up is made of DJ Bonebrake (X, The Knitters) on vibes, Jeremy Wakefield (The Lucky Stars, Squarepants SPongebob) on steel, TK Smith (Big Sandy, Smith's Ranch Boys) on guitar, Wally Hersom (Big Sandy, The Lucky Stars) on bass and last but not least Dave Stuckey (Dave'n'Deke, The Rhythm Gang, The Lucky Stars) on drums. Musically, imagine Red Novo, Benny Goodman in small formation and Jimmy Rivers jamming together and venturing into bop sometimes and you'll have an idea of the sound of the Bonebrake Syncopators. Three of them can play solos, giving rich and fine combinations and arrangements. Mostly instrumentals, it also features a couple of vocal numbers by Wakefield and Stuckey (who is not credited on the cover for that, I still don't know why). The singing decontraction of the later evokes Jack Teagarden, always playing with the time. As I said the musicianship is impressive and the pleasure of the music is highly communicative. A must have.