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Chris fagger Picture: Richard Markham .r.

Chris Jagger and his Kronies play their socks off and have ACE Space jumpin' THE return from the inimitable Music to his hero, topped offwith a deft touch Chris Jagger and his indefatigable from the fiddle player. Krbnies was greeted with high A couple of self-penned country ditties expectation from a packed ACE Chris and the Kronies, at Space audience. Jagger was followed by an excellent Bobby ACE Space, on Friday 1B Bland's I Woke Up Screaming. They were indeed taken to new April A heavy euphoric heights as the band played Chicago number with a their socks offfrom Bpm through to comforting ballad and seamlessly flowed drivhg beat was followed by a more 10.45pm, with just a 20-minute break. into the JJ Cale classic Cajun Moon, upbeat Road Rurunef which had. us which facilitated Kit Morgan's robust c)apping along. Jagger was able to show offhis iaterpretation ofthe classic interplay of Seemingly encouraged by the crowd diversity of music styles, while Jagger's and Mackrell's participation, Chris plucked a claiming complete ownership of each fiddle. and every song, from Scottish ballads to sigrroretta from the crowd and whimsy Irving Berlin and soft country And then on to another classic in Bob serenaded her across the dance floor to Americana and Cajun, cumulating in Dylan's Memphis Blues. Jagger was an up-tenipo litfle Mexican number, hard, relentless rock. able to rea1ly show his vocal versatility followecl by a couple of his own rock in interpreting Dylan's voice admirably numbers whose propelled He was backed by the driving beat of sheer force backed with a musical intensity by us onto the dance floor, where we drummer Steve Laffy kept on track by Morgan and Mackrell especially, jumping bassist Dave remained about in sheer Hatfield and with superb perhaps giving the song a more lead of Kit Morgan, topped by the delight until it was time to tread soffly melancholic feel than the original. out into that good night. haunting sounds emitted from the fiddle Morgan took possession stage played ofthe beautifully by Elliet Mackrell. with a truly haunting version of Jimi They wiJl be back, watch this space. He kicked off the set with a slow Hendrix's Zlllle WiW, doing real justice JIM CBOCKATT