Blue Room Boys

The Blue Room Boys being the best Frisco "house" band this town could ever hope to offer, you have no excuses. The Blue Room Boys' recently released Driving You Crazy captures the sublime musicianship of Danny Armstrong, Ralph Carney, Noel Jewkes, Brian Kane, Bill Langlois, Michael McIntosh, and Kevin Mummey, whose ability to play jazz and jump-blues standards with one arm tied behind their backs makes you wonder what they're doing spending time in a group whose stock repertoire includes "My Blue Heaven," "Sugar in My Bowl," and "You're Drivin' Me Crazy." I can tell you why: Tricia Thomas. If ever the voices of Bessie Smith and Victoria Spivey were to coalesce in the breast of a young woman in the year 2000, they've done so in her.