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For his 12th album, Bratcher gathered several musical friends in Kansas  City and Nashville to record 10 original tracks and two inspired cover songs to round out this unique project. The music ranges from barrelhouse boogie to straight-ahead blues, roots rock, and soul, mixed to enhance and inspire the downhome recipes, creating an entertaining and irreverent collection.  

While the songs on the album don’t reference any specific recipes, beyond the reference to fried chicken, they do speak of many of the ingredients and the joy of cooking. The opening track ‘I Love Her Name,’ spells out that affection with words that could’ve been in a kid’s playground song, but here are driven by barrelhouse piano from John Selle, setting the table for the delectable delights to come. Bratcher then plays the role of a man tormented  by being denied his pleasure upon doctor’s orders for the loping shuffle ‘Mama Won’t Fry No Chicken.’ Every good cook knows that the aroma of food is central to the presentation, so on ‘Bacon Is On My Mind,’ Bratcher uses a  bump and grind 12-bar blues to pontificate about one of the world’s most powerful olfactory senses.