Tim Sparks / James Buckley • Jukebox Dreamin'

These moments are much too rare: You relax, taking a breath, look back on the past and all that happened, and what has accompanied you all your life.

With his new album, “Jukebox Dreamin'”, steelstring icon Tim Sparks has created precisely such a moment.  Together with his congenial partner, double bassist James Buckley, he takes us on a wonderful musical journey down memory lane, or as Sparks puts it, a veritable road trip through an American landscape filled with lonely hearts and dusty jukeboxes, with a trunk full of songs by Paul Simon, Al Green, The Grateful Dead, or John Lennon.  And it’s a CD that is not only for long drives in the car.

At any rate, do not forget to adjust your back rest to a really comfortable position, because this album is the epitome of laid back …