You just need to read the name of the guy to know that on this thirteen track album, you’re going to get some boogie woogie and nothing but boogie woogie. Eric-Jan Overbeek, also   known as Mr Boogie Woogie, is a piano player and singer with such an explosive energy, you can’t help but be taken in a whirl of wild hip shaking. True, there are quite a lot of covers on this album but Mr Boogie Woogie spices them up with his own secret ingredients and positive energy.  Your hips will never be the same again after tracks such as ‘Read Me My Rights’ by D. McClinton, ‘Junk Yard Blues’ by A. Toussaint, ‘Rocket 88’ by I. Turner or ‘Big Chief’ by E. King. This album is stamped all over with pleasure… the pleasure of performing, the pleasure of listening, the pleasure of dancing. Recorded in two days, on the 12th and 13th of June 2010, there is in this album the incredible energy of music created in an emergency which must have inspired Eric-Jan and his three musicians. This is why you feel this album sounds like a ‘live’ with an impeccable recording quality. There are no instruments in the background, the bass guitar is as important as the vocals, piano, guitar or drums. This album has a wild, communicative energy you can’t resist even if you’ve had a very bad day. One of those CDs you’ll listen to over and over again.
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