On his first full-length album, Charlie Barath takes the blues into tasty new territory.
Barath treats us to haluski, pierogi, halupki and the smell of kielbasa in the kitchen on High Ball & a Covered Dish, a song inspired by the cooking of his mother, a first generation Polish-American.
Forget the catfish, cornbread, beans and barbecue typically on the lyrical menu of blues songs, Barath s High Ball & a Covered Dish kicks dupa (look it up) with its ode to Eastern European heritage carrying over to his mom wearing a babushka.
The Center Township bluesman s whole Just Me and My Friend(s) album brims with fun and fresh concepts, from the Woody Woodpecker Theme intro and outro to Losin My Mind over You to the quite-literal narrative in She Drives Me to Drink to the playful remorse in Little Turtle Nightlight, the only object the singer has got left after a serial-cheatin , heart-breakin woman does her damage.