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  Mick Kolassa and Jeff Jensen have teamed up again to produce
  Mick’s best album yet! Together they have assembled
  a heaping helping of Mick’ Free Range
  Blues. Recording this album in the middle of
  the Covid-19 pandemic was a challenge,
  but the guys pulled it off! Bringing together
  a group of musical friends, a group that
  only Memphis and the surrounding areas
  can provide, they’ve assembled a diverse
  collection of songs that are sure to please.
  The album opens with “I Can’t
  Help Myself”, an R&B love song that is
  Memphis through and through. That’s
  followed by Mick’s “uncover” of James
  Taylor’s “Lo and Behold”, which starts out with
  angels singing then brings down fire and brimstone! The
  third track is the album’s title track: “If You Can’t Be Good,
  Be Good At It”, a phrase Mick often uses at the end of a
  conversation – inspiration comes from many places.
  Track #4 is a powerful slow blues in a minor key: “Good Day
  For The Blues”, a song about everything going wrong. Next
  is “I’ve Seen”, in which Mick sings about what he has
  seen and what he most wants to see! In “We Gotta” Mick
  invites his lady friend to chase the stars and close down
  bars – soon! Living in the heart of the Mid-South, Mick has
  developed an appreciation for the region’s favorite beverage,
  “Sweet Tea”, so, of course, he wrote a song about it!
  “Slow and Easy Love” is another slow minor key blues song
  that is quite popular with the ladies at Mick’s live shows – or at
  least they were when those were a thing! Mick wrote “Good Night
  Irene” (no, not that one) for a friend who is a DJ from Down Under.
  “Who’s Been Talking” is a classic Howlin’ Wolf
  song, written by Chester Burnett himself. To record
  this Mick invited a very special friend – Blues Brother
  Willie “Too Big” Hall, to play drums – what a treat!
  The album closes with “She Kept Her Head Up”, a song
  he wrote for and about his daughter, Kassi, and her battle
  with breast cancer. It isn’t blues, but that doesn’t matter!
  This album is meant to be fun and sad, to take you
  up and down – and back up, and to give you plenty of
  reasons to go back and listen a few more times.
  
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