Brad Vickers & His Vestapolitans have always celebrated the roots of the music that we love and that has influenced us: blues, folk, rags, and “great American roots ’n’ roll”. For this album, “That’s What They Say”, we go even further back and mine this rich vein even deeper, with me developing one of my earliest-written songs, “Another Lonesome Road”, and Margey Peters writing a (very) short tribute, “Wishing Well”, in the style of folk singer Charity Bailey, who was a music teacher at her nursery school. The result is something we hope will resonate with you immediately and be familiarly pleasing. Again, we have collaborated with Dave Gross, and again we have called on good and talented friends to contribute to the proceedings. Master violinist Charles Burnham is on hand once more, as are the great horn players Jim Davis and Matt Cowan. The wonderful Bill Rankin takes the drum chair, and versatile Dave Gross jumps in to add color on a varie...