Just imagine Johnny Cash pushing a Bugaboo. That's Hullabaloo.

I don't yee-haw or two-step, although I may start after spinning Hullabaloo's country-fried, folksy kids' music CD, High Roller, a few more times. With my vote for coolest CD cover art of the year, High Roller gets toes tapping with plenty of banjo and fiddle but what really wins me over are the lyrics. How could I resist a title song that has a baby bragging about his cool stroller with its "3.5 inch rims" in a voice that conjures up Johnny Cash pushing a Bugaboo?

Most of the songs that this Southern Calfornia duo of Steve Deynes and Brendan Kremer put on their fifth album are original. My son loves Dinosaur in My Backyard so much, he demands I put it on "song 9" as soon as we get in the car. There are also treatments of Oh, Susanna! and This Land is Your Land which are pretty true to their roots--and actually my least favorite songs on the CD. Although the band deserves major props for their remake of London Bridge which I would make the new official version if I ruled the world.

And any concerns I had that this would be good ol' boys music evaporated by the second song about Princess Bluejeans, a princess I'd like to put up against those prissy pink versions any day.  -Christina

You'll find Hullabaloo's High Roller kids' music CD for sale at CD Baby and see more cool kids music in our archives!

Congratulations to Kristi B., lucky winner of a copy of Hullabaloo's High Roller!