1 The Busy Woman's Blues 6:12
2 Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing 3:11
3 Big Fine Daddy 4:06
4 Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You? 5:06
5 Now or Never 3:46
6 I've Got a Feelin' 3:41							play
7 Roll the Boogie 3:59
8 Honey Pie 4:10
9 I Want a Little Boy 6:10
10 Blow Me a Fat Note 3:25
11 Voo-It 5:06
12 He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped 3:32
13 Hootie Blues 4:06
14 Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? 5:15
15 Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today) 4:11
16 Winter Wonderland 2:20							play

Musicians:
Lavay Smith (vocals); 
Charlie Siebert (guitar); 
Jules Broussard (alto & tenor saxophone); 
Bill Stewart (alto saxophone); 
Ron Stallings (tenor & baritone saxophone); 
Herman Riley (tenor saxophone); 
Allen Smith, Bill Ortiz (trumpet); 
Marty Wehner, Danny Armstrong (trombone); 
Chris Siebert (piano); 
Bing Nathan (string bass); 
Sly Randolph, Mark Lee (drums); 
Jesus Diaz (bongos); 
Michael Spiro (congas).

If you like swinging big-band blues, this is a no-lose proposition. The eight-member backup outfit consists of jazz veterans who have played with giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton, and Duke Ellington; lead singer Smith, a kid by comparison, only sounds as if she lived through the big-band era. Half a dozen of the San Francisco group's sparkling originals fit right in with classics first popularized by the likes of Helen Humes, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, and Count Basie. The spirited performances benefit from first-rate musicianship, a sense of humor, and the group's refusal to try to update the genre they call home. As they prove on every one of the 16 tracks, this music works just as well today as it did in the '20s, '30s, '40s, and '50s. ---Jeff Burger, allmusic.com

When Johnny Otis gave his blessings to Lavay and the boys a few years ago it just confirmed what saavy listeners in the Bay area knew already. They smoke! This CD is a great sophomore effort (avoiding the dread slump afflicting so many bands in almost every genre). Great song selections, arrangements, lush vocals with just the right amount of bite by Lavay and a joyous swing vibe throughout. If you don't want to dance to this music, you must be dead. Also a serious tip of the hat for the superb analog like (meant in the best sense) sound quality, it's HDCD mastered by Paul Stubblebine (an SF audio engineer legend). Buy this CD, take your significant other out for a spin and enjoy a glorious Spring season. ---Nick Despotopoulos (San Jose, CA USA)

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1. Miss Brown To You 							play
2. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 
3. Daddy 
4. With My Man 
5. I'm Not Evil 
6. 'Deed I Do 									play
7. I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues 
8. Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong) 
9. On The Sunny Side Of The Street 
10. Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl 
11. Jumpin' In The Morning 
12. When The Saints Go Marching In

Musicians:
Lavay Smith (vocals); 
Mike Olmos, Allen Smith, Bill Ortiz (trumpet); 
Danny Armstrong (Trombone & Vocals);
Jules Broussard, Charles McNeal (Alto and Tenor Saxophones);
Howard Wiley, Robert Stewart (Tenor Saxophone);
Ron Stallings (Tenor and Baritone Saxophones);
Pete Cornell (Alto, Tenor and Baritone Saxophones);
Charlie Siebert (Guitar);
David Ewell, Marcus Shelby (String Bass);
Darrell Green (Drums);
Chris Siebert (Piano, Arranger, Bandleader).

With her vintage dresses and unabashedly sexy posturing, Lavay Smith evokes a bygone era, one when jazz was for dancing rather than for sitting and listening to, and when jump blues hadn't yet been displaced by rock & roll. The other thing that is unabashed about Smith is her repertoire, which on her third album consists primarily of standards -- and not just any standards, but songs so familiar they border on period cliché: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing," "'Deed I Do," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," even (heaven help us) "When the Saints Go Marching In." What can justify a program like this is any combination of the following: innovative arrangements; tremendous energy; a voice that either surprises or simply knocks down the walls; or undeniable chops. All of those elements are in evidence in various combinations throughout Miss Smith to You. Smith's voice is a very fine thing, powerful and flexible, capable of both purring insinuation and brazen assertion, and always full of joy. Her band is, if anything, even better: pianist Chris Siebert has created brilliant arrangements that combine comfortably mainstream principles of horn voicing with subtly crafty articulations and filigrees that tend not to assert themselves brassily, but rather lurk in the background for you to discover if you make the effort to listen for them. The three original songs are almost as good as the classics that make up the rest of the program, which is high praise indeed. --- Rick Anderson, Rovi

Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers' much anticipated third album blows away all expectations. With each CD Lavay's voice has developed and matured to become even more soulful and masterful than it was to begin with! This lady is all class and clearly has the chops to handle some of the greats. Indeed, Chris Siebert's arrangements and the musicality demonstrated by this band as a whole are more than just a fitting tribute to some of the greatest swing, jazz and blues legends ever known.... they allow the album to achieve a greatness in its own right. In all, this album (like the rest of the Skillet Lickers' albums) takes us back to a better time in music, and is a much welcomed and much needed treat! --- Tatiana L. Ortiz "You may know what you ...” (California), amazon.com

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