Sweet Megg (a.k.a singer Meaghan Farrell) and woodwind player Ricky Alexander tap into the enduring appeal of early swing on their debut, I’m In Love Again.

Delectably pithy, each of the record’s 11 tunes delivers a heady dose of syncopation and tuneful improvisation, recalling the abandon of jazz-age dance halls and speakeasies.

1. My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms
2. Foolin’ Myself
3. Right or Wrong
4. Squeeze Me
5. Last Night on the Back Porch
6. Angry
7. I Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good
8. Ragged but Right
9. I’m in Love Again
10. I’d Love to Take Orders From You
11. A Blues Serenade

The new recording opens on the ragtime swirl of My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms and the extravagant Foolin’ Myself and then we get the hot shoe shuffle of Right or Wrong, the lavishly sculpted Squeeze Me and the late night club appeal of Last Night on the Back Porch.

Along next is the upbeat and soaring Angry and the aching piano ballad I Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good and they are in turn backed by the flirtatious ditty Ragged but Right, the rhythmically enjoyable I’m in Love Again, the album closing on the ferociously towering I’d Love to Take Orders From You, coming to a close on the languishing beauty of A Blues Serenade.

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