1994 The Kitchen Boys
'Passion Town'
Steve Coffey & Jay Bigam
Produced by Bill Bourne
Guests: Shannon Johnson
Bill Bourne, Stu Mitchell, 
Elvin Berthiaume,
Stan Stewart

Photo by Lawrence Chrismas

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1993 The Kitchen Boys Cassette
Steve Coffey & Jay Bigam 

The Kitchen Boys: PASSION TOWN - Duo on this CD in from Backburner Records, up Alberta, Canada way. If you've been hankerin' fer' some "festival" music, where (as Bryan Bowers used to say) th' "whiskey bottles are droppin' outta' th' trees", this one will be RIGHT up yer' alley! These two young fellas (Steve Coffey and Jay Bigam), will have ya' wishin' ya' were back out there inna' WOODS with momma's grits&honey (or whatever they eat nowadays up in that neck o'...). This is some genuinely pretty guitar/banjo/bass/violin/etc. music, with spirit shining right THROUGH! Th' years I spent in Alabummer were rife with "pretenders" to this kind of throne. I can definitely see myself right there in th' KITCHEN with 'em, sippin' on a bottle of J.D. & rememberin' the sweetnesses of years gone by. The beauty of THEIR talent, in my ears, though , is that they don't have to play a whole string of "tear jerkers" in there to get their soul across. As is always true with this form of music, there's both joy AND sadness streaming through... it's clear they've learned how to balance those feelings well enough to make them gently stream out through their fingers. This gets the PICK of this issue for best "country/folk" music.
 It's MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - Zzaj Productions
D. Metcalf, Lacey, WASHINGTON