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September Song 06:22
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Go Daddy Go 02:35
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The Man I Love 06:39
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Ode to Billie Joe 05:13
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I'm a Fool to Want You 07:46
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Long Gone Blues 05:10
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Slidin' Home 04:20
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Smile 05:39
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Let me start by saying that the term "Old Man Rhythm" - from Frankie Ford's 1959 hit record "Sea Cruise" - is not meant to exclude anyone at all. It's just a feeling I feel, it comes from the ground and seeps up from your soles, like on a hot muggy day in New Orleans when you walk along the Mississippi River. Easy, swingy and loping, and when all your parts start moving together it can't help but be funky.

This album of mostly jazz standards is a bit of a departure from our more blues-based works. These songs nod to Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, Roy Smeck, Fletcher Henderson, Bob Wills, Charlie Christian, all very very rhythmic cats. And the women too - Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Billie Holiday of course, not to mention present day inspirations like Karry Walker and Jill Rogers and Aurora Nealand.

That Mississippi river - Old Man River!! - and all the music that it washed down from St. Louis, Memphis and the Delta swirled around with sounds up from the Caribbean. It is the past, the present and hopefully the future too. Anyone anywhere can feel the old man rhythms we are playing here. Just get that feeling in your soles. Enjoy!

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released April 13, 2020

Myles Boisen - guitars
John Schott - electric guitar (The Man I Love)
Lorenzo Farrell - organ and bass (Ode to Billie Joe)
John Ettinger - violin (September Song)
Rob Barics - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Andrew Stephens - trumpet
Scott Larson - arranging, trombone
Henry Salvia - piano
Jill Rogers - vocal (Long Gone Blues)
Seth Ford-Young or Safa Shokrai - acoustic bass
John Hanes - drums

On Slidin' Home by Crying TIme:
Myles Boisen - electric guitar
Bobby Black - pedal steel guitar
Tony Marcus - electric mandolin, acoustic guitar
Henry Salvia - piano
Peter Garellick - electric bass
Tim Rowe - drums
Jill Rogers and Crying TIme - group vocals

Please see credits on individual song pages for more detail.

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Myles Boisen Oakland, California

Myles Boisen is a guitarist, composer, improvisor, and record producer/ engineer. He has performed/ recorded with John Zorn, Tom Waits, Rova Saxophone Quartet, John Tchicai, Nina Hagen, Myra Melford, Ralph Carney, Splatter Trio, and his own Past-Present-Future groups, as well as accruing hundreds of production and mastering credits on recordings by other artists from 1979 to the present. ... more

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