Champagne & Grits
 Little Axe
 76746 Real World

It's blues alright, but not as we have known it. This is the blues through the eyes of Tackhead's Skip McDonald - funked up, dubbed out, stretched, twisted, forced to drink a bottle of Jim Beam and then lovingly, achingly brought back to life in a new and glorious way with songs to die for, hooks, galore, and bass that goes so low you can only feel it.

"I like creating the grooves you thought you'd forgotten about." — Skip McDonald

Featuring guest vocalists Chris Difford of Squeeze, Shara Nelson (Massive Attack's "Safe From Harm"), Ghetto Priest, Junior Delgado and longtime Rolling Stones tour-mate Bernard Fowler, this outrageously catchy and original album was produced by dub legend Adrian Sherwood and largely recorded at Sherwood's On-U-Sound in London (with some tracks laid down at the Treehouse in Connecticut). A new sound is born, that somehow conflates the principles of hip-hop, funk, dub and techno. The connecting factor?

"...the belief that there is common ground in the music of Captain Beefheart and Prince Far I, King Tubby and Jimi Hendrix." — Adrian Sherwood

This album's infectious freshness doesn't lack deep pedigree. McDonald and bandmates Keith Le Blanc and Doug Wimbish are the guys who put the booty into Rapper's Delight during their early 1980s tenure as the Sugarhill Gang house band, playing with Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel and the Furious Five on such classics as The Message and White Lines.