Pull up your chair and fill up on this bowlful of 16 musical surprises from Yosi, whose all-ages tunes have been acclaimed by the New York Times as “whimsical and genre spanning.” The rousing first number, “Let’s Get Cookin’” a Zydeco good-time tune about fun in the kitchen, sets the happy tone for the whole album. From there, Yosi explores a range of cuisines and musical themes, from the hard-driving rock and roll riffs of “Chicken Noodle Soup” and “Chicken Gizzards and Collard Greens” to the bouncy klezmer ode to “Bulbes (Potatoes)” and the calypso strains of “Chilly Chili.” Fellow dad-rocker Brady Rymer joins in for a version of Rymer’s song “Fresh Brown Eggs,” and the whole family will sing along to the familiarly funny lines of “On Top of Spaghetti,” humorously arranged to a punk/metal beat. And Yosi’s original ode, “Spaghetti Worms and Meatballs,” expresses his zany approach to food and eating (with a little reference to Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant on the side). The New Orleans jazz style song, “I Just Love You” ends the disc on an especially sweet note.
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