For more than twenty-five years singer and guitar player Mike Bourne has made audiences dance and enjoy his music, mixing with good taste and reliability styles like jump blues, rhythm & blues, 50’s rock & roll, blues and roots music.

His most direct influences can be found in musicians like Louis Jordan or T-Bone Walker and, along his career he has played with Otis Rush, Sam Lay or Barrelhouse Chuck among many others.

Mike began to play guitar when he was 22 years old and, at 25, he started his professional career in cities like Chicago and Atlanta. He currently lives in Kansas City, where he has become a very popular musician, well-known by local audiences, thanks to the energy and passion he always puts into his performances.

This album is a good example of Mike Bourne’s infectious style. It gathers twelve of his own songs and a couple of covers. In all tracks Mike Bourne feels totally comfortable, communicating the joy and exuberance of the rhythms he plays, as well as the passion he puts into all the album songs, that will make listeners be carried away by the personal rhythm Mark gives to each song, that will them dance from the first to the last song.

As I just mentioned, Mike Bourne is a very appreciated and loved musician in Kansas City area, which becomes evident when you see that more than twenty musicians wanted to collaborate in the recording. It would be rather long to mention them all, but one can easily imagine that the song’s instrumentation reaches an outstanding level and all the musicians who participate in the recording do a faultless job, which makes as a result a varied, joyful, entertaining album that communicates a catching rhythm.

Mike Bourne and all the musicians involved have done a remarkable job and give off a good dose of energy and fun, so you should immediately get a copy if you want to have a good time and listen to well-developed songs.