Last Fool Here Shower-Tone Records My Damn Baby - Do I Love You - Cry Cry Cry - Coulda Shoulda Woulda -Not Enough of You - Blue Days, Black Nights - Lucky Stars - Sixteen Chicks - Go Cat Go! - Heartaches for a Dime - That Ain't Nothin' But Right - Last Fool Here JP Mc Dermott is one hell of a singer - he has been voted “Country vocalist of the year” by the Washington Area Music Association - and backed by talented and competent musicians of the Washington area like Bob Newcaster (Tex Rubinowitz, Billy Hancock and more recently Dagmar & The Seductones) he produced a album rich in styles and genres. Whatever the kind of rockin’/roots stuff you like, you’ll find one here for you : from wild and fast paced rockabilly (the first song “My Damn Baby” that is a real killer or the cover of “16 Chicks”), a bluesy song with a hot greasy sound on the guitar (Do I Love You), or some classic country (Cash’s Cry Cry Cry) and honky tonk (Harlan Howard’s Heartache for a Dime). “Go Cat Go” is an instant hymn for all the rockabilly cats and would have made Carl Perkins proud. “Lucky Stars”, a song also played by Dagmar And The Seductones, is a fine rockabilly tune that sounds like “Buddy Holly goes to Mexico” if you see what I mean. The kid from Lubbock is also represented with “Blue Days, Black Nights”, a nice rendition with perfect harmony vocals. On the slow side “Not Enough Of You” is a beautiful ballad but the real gem has been kept to end the album : “Last Fool Here”, a soulful waltz with a 60’s country feel. Backed by just a piano and a light rhythm section, the amazing voice of Mc Dermott could make the strongest man in the world cry. You’ll find this album at cdbaby Fred "Virgil" Turgis