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Cherry Poppin Daddies

You can't fake something that's fine," says Steve Perry, founder and frontman of the one and only Cherry Poppin' Daddies.

Masters of both extraordinary elegance and bird-flipping fury, Cherry Poppin' Daddies are indeed the real deal. Ever impossible to pigeonhole, White Teeth, Black Thoughts sees the Eugene, Oregon-based big band pushing themselves to the outer limits of inspiration and invention, resulting in two-count 'em-two distinctive collections. The primary album marks CPD's first jazz and swing-powered outing in more than a decade, while the exhilarating bonus disc is built upon a twisted frame of guitar-slinging rock 'n' roll. Perry once again affirms his standing as a songwriter, bandleader, and bomb thrower of the first order with songs like the defiant "I Love American Music," utilizing deeply embedded textures of the past to directly and provocatively face up to our present and future. As brave and articulate as it is boisterous and celebratory, Cherry Poppin' Daddies' White Teeth, Black Thoughts is the souped-up, swinging sound of America's dance band playing as the ship goes down.