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Big Al Jano?s Blues Mafia Show premiere CD release, Lady That Digs The Blues, has the right ingredients of humor and great dance grooves to stimulate those pleasure endorphins in the brain. Starting with the track "Problems of My Own", Big Al presents the listener with an odyssey of stressful situations and how he copes with them. "Lucille" is a blues rocker about going postal over a mean woman that spotlights the great Blues voice of Butch Cooper on lead vocal. "Good Enough Excuse" is about self-denial of various addictions performed in the flippant manner characteristic of a 1950?s stroll tune. Daniel Summers takes center stage next on "Heart of Stone", an angst-ridden tune of a love that should be avoided at all cost. Jano returns on "Cherie, Cherie", a blues rocker about a babe in a Bad Ass Biker Bar. "In Give It Everything We Got", Rick Ware serves up a jump blues that?s guaranteed to make swing dancers? cardio rates go up. Next in a style reminiscent of bands during the Roaring 20?s, the entire group starts the vocal of title track "Lady That Digs the Blues". Butch Cooper returns on "The Quest", an eight-minute Blues opus that tells the tale of his search for the red house made famous by Jimi Hendrix. (Odd note of help to new mothers: This tune was performed at a tempo that is known to put some babies back to sleep!) In "Cyberspace Sadie" Big Al uses ?geek-speak? lyrics in this double entendre Blues shuffle about a nerd?s lustful fantasies on the Internet. For the CD?s finale, "Chiquita Margaritta", is a driving jump blues that features several scorching solos and a pumping rhythm section. A two track Bonus Section features some old style 1940's & 50's radio comedy and shenanigans in "Shopping at the Supermarket". It segues into "The Hot Dog Man",a 1962 ?Animal House? frat party classic by The Night Shadows; the CD?s only cover song.