Little Kim & The Alley Apple 3 ‎– The Devil - She’ll keep the devil dancing on your heart CD

Western swing is used as a base to which elements from gypsy swing, crooner, jazz (always a main ingredient of Western swing), ragtime, dixieland, honky tonk piano boogie, blues, instrumentals and Andrews Sisters are added. That range is made even wider by the guest musicians, because where on their debut only a lonely fiddle and trumpet were hired for a few numbers, for the new CD they have pulled out all the stops with violin, muted trumpet, clarinet, piano, extra percussion, extra backing vocals, harmonica and God forbid even a glockenspiel and a singing saw that are allowed to participate prominently in the game. We do not know any of these guests except Jeffrey Thielens, ex-harmonica man of rockabilly band The Hometown Gamblers.

All this of course provides extra variation, although we should not exaggerate: the Hammond organ on the title track was not necessary in our opinion. Furthermore, all the positive things we wrote about Riding The Rails also apply to She’ll Keep The Devil Dancing In Your Heart, such as the pronounced slap of Selim Meiresonne and the rich intrinsic arrangements by Tom De Poorter, although we would like to point out here that not every ending should contain an elaborate ingenious invention: the whistling birds and the music box at the end of Little Sarah are just a bit too much. Lots of original songs: 8 of the 11 songs were written and composed by jack-of-all-trades Tom De Poorter, the covers come from the very old box, namely When Paw Was Courting Maw (I know it from Glenn Miller from the late 1930s and even then they already thought that everything was better in the old days), I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate and My Blue Heaven shows that Fats Domino already got the idea in 1924.

Label: Self-Released

Country: Belgium

Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

CD plays great but has some very lightly scuffs