Save My Soul

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 8, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B00009YRSB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,660 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #25 in Music > Jazz > Swing Jazz > Retro Swing
  • #82 in Music > Jazz > New Orleans Jazz

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Big Bad Awesome CD, October 3, 2003

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Victor L. Peters (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Save My Soul (Audio CD)

The BBVD have produced another fantastic feel-good CD that gets you swinging in your living room. I confess, their self-titled "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy" CD is still my favorite, but this is a worthy successor to their previous CDs. This CD is fairly similar to the previous CDs, but it has a few more slower songs and experiments with a few different sounds to keep it interesting.
I just saw BBVD live for the first time and I now have a whole new appreciation for them. It was the best concert I've ever been to. There music is infectious on a recording, but when it is blasting all around with you, with audience members swing dancing in the audience, it is *amazing*. On top of that, to see these nine musicians performing so stunningly and passionately gives you a whole new appreciation to how much sweat, talent, and passion goes into creating their music.
I recommend this but I recommend their first CD even more, and I recommend their live concerts the most! After you see them live, you'll want to come back and buy all the CDs.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your big, bad music makes me go insane! :), July 28, 2003

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Pamela Scarangello (Middletown, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Save My Soul (Audio CD)

I possess all 3 LPs by the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy group, and undoubtedly "Save my Soul" is the absolute best of the musical trio. With blaring trumpets, a tickled piano, a pulsating bass, a sliding saxophone AND heart-stopping drums (among other things), the 10 tracks of the "Save my Soul" LP explode with as much wild color and exhuberence as a Mardi Gras parade! The members of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy have dramatically grown in their musical creativity: instead of assembling just swing songs, the group has absorbed and blended instrumental elements of Dixie, smooth jazz, rhythm & blues and even Ragtime. Much of the band's smoking inspiration originated from the deep south, particularly from the streets of New Orleans, with its alligator swamps, saloons and voodoo shops. "Save My Soul" has plenty of syncopated twists and turns for the listener: "Always Gonna Get Ya" is another slice of good ol' fashion 1930's swing; in a way it's quite similar to the song "You, Me & the Bottle." My favorite track is probably "Don't You Feel My Leg," a sensational lounge tune about a woman who wants nothing more than to be treated like a lady. "Oh Yeah's" melody reminds a little bit of Brian Setzer's "Stray Cat Strut," and "Simple Song's" piano melody might as well have been composed by the late Scott Joplin himself. And then, of course, "Save My Soul's" title track is an enthusiastic salute to New Orleans, nicknamed the river of mud. Get this album while you can, readers: this CD is a fun, sexy and joyful piece of work. :)

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back and Bad as Ever, February 23, 2004

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therosen "therosen" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Save My Soul (Audio CD)

As a listener with an admitted positive bias, I was putting some huge expectations on this album. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy delivered.

Two songs stand out as sticking in my head, even though I haven't heard them in a few weeks...

- You Know You Wrong is a fast paced danceable tune that lodges itself in your ears within a few plays.

- Don't You Feel My Leg is a campy song where BBVD takes the woman's point of view. Maybe not a great visual image, but the audio makes you chuckle.

As expected, the entire CD features matchless musicianship from a band that has not lost touch with the music that made them popular.