Big Bad Voodoo Daddy brought their nine-piece swing band though Liberty Hall in Lawrence, KS on cold and very icy night on Friday. The band, who formed back in the grunge music days of 1993, were celebrating their 30th year together, with all original members, this coming April. Scotty Morris, lead singer and guitarist of the group, apologized for not coming to Lawrence since 1998, which was according to his paperwork. The crowd quickly corrected him by saying that the last time the band had been through was in 2010, when they stopped at the Lied Center at the University of Kansas.
The strange thing about this show, is that the entire Hall was seating only, with fold out chairs taking up the entire lower half of the Theater. This left no room for what I thought would be another attraction of the night, swing dancers. This is not to say that no one was actually dancing, but they were pushed back to the very back of the Hall, all the way back to the Stage Left side of the back of the hall, close to where the merchandise was located. Yet, the audience was still dancing in their seats when the bands hits like Jumpin’ Jack and their cover of Cab Calloway’s Minnie The Moocher were played.
Mr. Morris promised the audience that night that it would not be as long as it had in the past, 12 and 13 years respectively, before the band came back to the area.
The Band that Saved The World (The opening band of the night)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
