Swing

SWING is a great, whimsical, cute, lively, spontaneous, almost unbelievably happy album with Suzy's great voice and musicians who are superb. I only wish the cover photos had been chosen more carefully. Suzy is very cute and the liner notes have two lively photos that could have captured her cuteness and the album's fun flavor. Instead, we have Suzy looking as if she did not have any fun making the album at all. Suzy, if you picked the cover photos, what can I say? You should have used the cute ones inside the liner notes.

Suzy Bogguss has a very good voice for sure, though not the kind that makes a song the way Emmylou or Jane Monheit (from another genre) can. Her songs work because she sounds really good, and she sounds like she's having fun. She's an unaffected singer, which makes her really different from most. On this disk, as the title says, she's moved completely into jazz-tinged western swing style, and she handles the swing part very well. (she's done it before -- her contribution of Old Fashioned Love to the Bob Wills celebration album by Asleep at the Wheel is outstanding) Backed again by Roy Benson, she sounds completely at ease here. I would not have thought she could do so well with Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me or Comes Love, but they are good versions for sure. This disk is her best album as a whole that I know of -- there are NO songs you want to skip over...several years later, i revisited this review and decided i was really stingy and wrong-headed in my assessment. First, it is more than a 5 star album, but i try to save 5 for a handful of disks... Second, and more important -- Suzy Bogguss has an exceptional voice, without being as distinctive or embellished as Emmylou or Monheit. It is a voice without artifice, and her diction is unexcelled. for a treat, look at the youtube video of her singing After You've Gone with Chet Atkins. It's stunning.

Suzy Bogguss proves once again that she is soooooo much more than just a country singer. Oh there's nothing wrong with being a country singer, there are people who make a good living that way and have thousands of fans and big ranches and ride around in Silver Eagles but this artist can blow with the best Big Band singers and still keep the Country fans happy. Straighten Up and Fly Right will be familiar to all of the Nat King Cole fans and Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me may be a version destined to be known as Suzy's standard but the real hidden treasures are in the tunes you may not have heard before, Burnin' the Toast For You and Stay Out Of My Dreams will put a smile on your face and leave a melody running through the corridors of your mind. Even if you don't like Country this should be in your collection.

Suzy Bogguss and Asleep at the Wheel fit like a glove: her pitch-perfect voice meets their tight arrangements. Albums this good deserve Grammies. The cover of Duke Ellington's "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me" alone is worth the price...at any price.

This is a big departure from her usual, really great, catchy tunes, though! The kind of music that will keep your feet tapping. Definitely worth the money!

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this cd of suzy boguss "swing" is one of the best I have seen the music is great it makes you want to dance,of which we did,very enjoyable thank-you amazon for being able to choose from so many artists bette sullivan

We saw Suzy Bogguss in concert and this is one of her best CD's....Love it!