My Shining Hour

Broom is celebrating the release of his fine new guitar trio CD, My Shining Hour (Origin Records), featuring nine gem-like standards with a little bit of help from his friends and fellow jewelers, Dennis Carroll on bass and McCraven on drums.

In its own somber, reflective, bluesy way, Broom's original, poetic interpretation of "The Tennessee Waltz" is one of the freshest takes on the Patti Page mega-hit of 1950 since Sam Cooke's miraculously, gloriously exultant rendition in 1964 transformed and radicalized the white-bread waltz into a superb, soulful ode to ecstasy.