Here's an interesting concept -- a female from the Netherlands (Carole Van Dyk of Bette Serveert) and a guy from Belgium (Pascal Deweze) get together and write and perform a bunch of retro country tunes. Their English is faultless, and they have good, tight backing arrangements. Not too many of the songs are memorable, however. My personal favorite of their originals is The Battle. The homage to Jimmie Rodgers is poorly chosen, for some of the lyrics in Mississippi Delta Blues are embarrassingly dated and racist. The Chitlin's biggest influence appears to be Gram Parsons and they have chosen well their cover for him: the always beautiful Juanita is by some margin the best cut on the CD.
