Tim Rushlow Croons The Great American Songbook With His Big Band

Former Little Texas frontman Tim Rushlow has reinvented himself by putting on the shark skin jacket and skinny tie, and croons some of the best material from the great american songbook. Rushlow pays tribute to some of the greats he grew up listening to as a young boy at the age of thirteen. He says he wouldn't trade a moment of his Little Texas days with his band but he finally found what he's always wanted to do since his early teens, and now is that time where we need to remind the world about these great american classics.

Tim pays homage to some of the greats like the late great Bobby Darin by doing two of his most memorable hits "Beyond The Sea" and Bobby's big classic "Mack The KNife", and if you're watching him perform these live or listening to this phenominal live album he'll bring you back to those classic moments of the great crooners careers in the day, Bobby would be proud to hear just how hauntingly close Rushlow sounds like Darin performing these two hits here, it's no wonder why the Bobby Darin estate is putting their stamp of approval on Rushlow's performance of these two classics and are backing Tim to go out on the road in 2019 to perform a show of just ZBobby's best songs. Not to mention Rushlow says that him and Darin have a lot in common musically as Bobby Darin crossed over through genres a few times in his short life and career from rock and roll to big band or what they called it in Bobby's day was pop, and then he even crossed over one more time into the fok scene, Rushlow started off in the country music field and has now crossed over into big band and transferred very smoothly I might add.

We move on to what Tim qualifies to be two more crooners and they are, but they are two of the pioneers of Rock and Roll as well and that's Buddy Holly and Tim does such a beautiful job on Holly's "Raining In My Heart", that he must have been and still looking down with a huge smile, and to hear this Holly penned classic with a full big band orchestra I can only say wow, what a difference an orchestra can make for a song. The second pioneer of Rock and Roll Rushlow pays tribute to is none other than the King of Rock and Roll that's right our good old boy from Memphis, Tennessee Elvis Presley again Tim performs "love Me" with great integrity and the only thing that's missing to make this piece complete like the King's is the famous Jordanairs singing back up but other than that I wouldn't change a thing.

The next big crooner paid tribute to is a member of the rat pack you guessed it Frank Sinatra and Tim's performance of four of Sinatra's classics can be heard almost back to back to back to back starting with "The Coffee Song" adding a little of a Desi Arnez flavor to it makes it really swing and make you also want to get up and dance this being the rarest of the Sinatra songs being performed in the set we then move on to three big ones everyone should know by old blue eyes "Luck Be A Lady" done like you currently hear at the beginning of the broadway show "Guys and Dolls" but then into a Sinatra full swing mode from there on, "That's Why THe Lady Is A Tramp" and "That's LIfe" are two of Sinatra's biggest hits that no one can forget not to mention all the material you hear in this live album performance young
and old will most definitely know as you hear a lot of this classic american songbook in many of commercials on television in this
day and age . We can't forget another rat pack member that' Tim is covering and that's Dean Martin and Rushlow's rendition of Martin's
"Ain't That A Kick In The Head" again close your eyes and you think you're hearing Dean with his orchestra singing this one of many classics. We couldn't go without hearing one of Tim's band Little Texas hits being done big band style one of their most heart felt ballads "What Might Have Been", which crossed over to the pop charts in the nineties and is still played in somewhat heavy rotation twenty something years later, all Rushlow did was drop the key a little on this Little Texas memorable hit and gave it a new life.

To bring this whole album into perspective is once you listen to this album you'll want to run out and see Tim Rushlow perform all these great american songbook classics, as he doesn't just do the artists he's paying homage to justice, it's more like he's channeling the greats through him. If you're a fan of his musical material from LIttle Texas you'll still be a fan of what he's doing now and it will also give you a refresher course on the music we now call the great american songbook. Be sure to check it out if he comes to a city or town near you.