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Claudia Schmidt and the Jump Boys: "Live" at the Old Rectory Pub
by Dave Nathan
For the last several years, Claudia Schmidt has been one of the Midwest's most well known folk performers, utilizing voice and guitar. She has now reinvented herself as a jazz/blues singer and dispatches the play list on this CD as if she has been doing this material forever. Judging by the applause, so does the audience who showed up at Old Rectory Restaurant and Pub in Northern Michigan. The blues permeates Bill Broonzy's classic “Trouble in Mind" with a talking ...
read moreClaudia Schmidt with the Jump Boys: I Thought About You
by Dave Nathan
During the 1980's, Claudia Schmidt was a popular Mid West folk singer with her many albums, frequent appearances on such shows as A Prairie Home Companion, festivals and gigs. She has recently moved away from Folk, becoming a jazz singer. For this her second jazz album, she and her group, The Jump Boys, went into the studios for what these days is called a live performance. This means that everyone is present and playing together at the same time rather ...
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