Dr. Barnabas T. Bynum's New School Musical Revue and Travelling Minstrel Show

Congrats to Teddy Thompson. With his new cd, Upfront And Downlow, he has achieved something 95% of the hat acts in Nashville fail to produce - a country recording. And it took a bloody Brit to do it. Son of famed folk rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson, Teddy has emerged as a powerful singer songwriter himself. This cd however, consists mainly of classic country tunes such as Walking The Floor Over You (Ernest Tubb), My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers (Merle Haggard), and She Thinks I Still Care (George Jones) just to name a few. With his laid back engaging vocal style, Thompson makes the tunes his own without deconstructing the original versions. By jumping into this classic country pool of music, Thompson shows us that the water is fine. Few still dare to enter.