Sing You Sinners by Erin Mckeown

Sing You Sinners, released on Nettwerk in 2006, was Erin McKeown's seventh album since starting out in 1997 and their fourth studio record in six years, and it's a detour into the old songbook: a set of American standards with just one original, "Melody", slipped in among them. McKeown plays a whole rack of banjos and guitars as well as singing, with Sam Kassirer on piano, organ and Wurlitzer, Todd Sickafoose on bass and Allison Miller on drums.

It suits a musician who has always moved easily between swing, folk, pop and rock. The band swings loose and light, McKeown's voice has a sly, smiling bounce to it, and the old tunes, "Rhode Island Is Famous for You" among them, come out sounding lived-in rather than dusted off.

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