Christopher Dean was born August 1973 and is a NJ native but resides in Havre De Grace MD as of 2020. He has been touring since 1997 fulltime as a traveling blues/soul musician.

On Steppin Out Tonight, his sixth album for the Lost World Music label, Christopher returns to the happy mix of blues and R&B that has characterized most of his releases. Indeed, the previous one, Need a Friend, was entirely focused on blues.

For extra seasoning, we get four original love ballads by Chris in more of a soft-rock mode, with touches of gospel and samba music veined throughout.

The set opens - and closes - on a couple of deep dives into the blues whilst in-between it goes every way but musically loose to entertain us.

1. My Road is Rough and Rocky
2. It Served Me Right to Suffer
3. Here With Me
4. Walk Around Time
5. You Are The Reason
6. That Old Feeling is Gone
7. Running Stop Lights
8. Party Like Back in the Day
9. I’m the One Who Loves You
10. Save Us
11. If We Can’t Trust Each Other
12. Thank You For Letting Me Know
13. Everybody’s Blues [Bonus Track]
14. She’s Gone [Bonus Track]

This beautifully crafted, and expertly sculpted musical masterpiece opens on the country blues of Sam Collins’ My Road is Rough and Rocky and a heartfelt cover of Jimmy Johnson’s It Served Me Right to Suffer and then we get brought forth the impassioned Here With Me, the midnight stroll hipsway of Robert Cray’s Walk Around Time, the low slung rhythmic balladry of You Are The Reason, before we are given some divine West Coast sounds within T-Bone Walker’s That Old Feeling is Gone and the silky smooth R&B vibe of Melvin Waiter’s Running Stop Lights.

Along next on what is my newly-crowned favorite album of the year thus far is the soulfully-grooved beauty Party Like Back in the Day (T.K. Soul) and the beautifully dreamy Curtis Mayfield’s I’m the One Who Loves You and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the dutiful, veritably Motown-eque piano balladry of Save Us, the Phillysound of If We Can’t Trust Each Other and a shimmering Thank You For Letting Me Know, the set now rounding out on two bluesy bonus tracks: the Mississippi blues of Walter “Furry” Lewis’ Everybody’s Blues and the six finger boogie blues of Theodore Roosevelt “Hound Dog” Taylor’s She’s Gone.

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