Hi-N-Dry

• Artist: Twinemen
• Title: Saturday Night
• Release Date: 5.24.02
• Produced by: Andrew Mazzone
• Recorded & Mixed by: Billy Conway and Andrew Mazzone

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• Track Listing:

  • That Chick's Too Young To Fry  
  • Lucy  
  • Ka-Ding Dong  
  • Young Girl  
  • Gospel Wheel  
  • Lips Red As Wine  
  • Trickle Trickle  
  • Tit For Tat  
  • Wow Wow Baby  
  • The Sheik of Araby  
  • Name Damage  
  • Surlene  
  • Breaking Rocks  
  • Down To Tijuana  
  • Driving Nails In My Coffin  

The Family Jewels

Musical bliss-makers the Family Jewels polish nuggets of old-time rhythm & blues, making timeless party gems gleam again. Expertly led by HI-N-DRY MVP's Asa Brebner on guitar and Andrew Mazzone on bass, the Boston-based Jewels put rollicking new life into long lost hits like the G-Cleffs "Ka-Ding Dong" and classics like Louis Jordan's double-entendre swinger "That Chick's Too Young to Fry"on their debut Saturday Night. The line-up of great players includes guitarist David Champagne (the Heygoods, Treat Her Right) and saxist Dana Colley (Twinemen, Morphine), but the accent's on winning six-part vocal harmonies that use the rhythmic style of doo-wop to drive audiences wild.

"These songs were originally considered 'race' records before Elvis legitimized black music for a white audience, so a lot of people haven't heard these tunes," says Brebner, "This is the original underground music."

REVIEWS:

"In the early '50’s, right before Rock& Roll, Doo-Wop and Rhythm & Blues comprised the evolving sound of American music. These styles were absorbed by folks both black and white. Words cannot capture the significance and emotion of the sound of such an era, but The Family Jewels can." "[The Jewels] remind us of the importance of vocal harmony. When they engulf you in their music, you forget about everything and join their celebration….."
" A certain timelessness….a tremendous amount of history of rural and urban culture.."
-Craig Terlino, Weekly Dig

"The Jewels album, "Saturday Night"…a nod to the spirit of this music which fueled weekend dances and dates in the days before Rock & Roll took hold, and was still part of a secret code for teenagers which translated across divisions of race and class.." "Thoroughly entertaining"… "jumping, R&B-saturated..built around the kind of harmonies rarely heard since Frankie Lymon asked why fools fall in love…"
-Ted Drodzowski, Boston Phoenix

"How can you not like a band called The Family Jewels?"… "The Jewels shine.."
-Steve Morse, Boston Globe