I usually don’t make New Year resolutions, but since I have spent the last few nights dancing to the music of Willie Nelson, Mingo Fishtrap, Walt Wilkins and Garrett LeBeau, I think that sets the tempo for the year.  Dancing is feel good fun, and I think the best exercise is seamlessly woven into your life. There is already plenty of music to dance to in mine, but I hope to find a bar or two that has an 80s night!

Photo: Emad Hasan

‘Tis the first day of music discovery here and yeah you can dance to it. Long Tall Sally and Short Fat Fanny ain’t got nothing on Low Cut Connie, I’ll bet she’s built for speed too. There are no women in this band, so I am not casting aspersions.  Uh-oh, the name of the album is Get Out The Lotion, so you might as well assume the position while you are at it. There are five tunes from the album for you to sample on their website, and their two songwriters bridge the pond; New Jersey's Adam Weiner and Birmingham, England's Dan Finnemore. It makes for boozy, swampy, hip shaking stuff. That’s Adam on the piano ala Jerry Lee,  and Dan on the drums, along with guitarist Neil Duncan on his Les Paul and bass player Russell Salib. Here is a somewhat lo-fi video of the song “Rio.” Hope we can give them the magic Music Fog treatment one of these days! 

- Jessie Scott