This Beautiful Life

This Beautiful Life is the third studio album by the swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. It was released in 1999 on Coolsville/Interscope Records.

Critical reception
The Washington Post wrote that the album "borrows not only from swing but even more so from jump-blues and more recent roots-rock to provide a mongrelized, horn-fueled vehicle for Scotty Morris's songs." The Los Angeles Times thought that "there is some predictable, Krupa-esque drumming, and little attempt to push the genre in any new directions."

Personnel

 * Scotty Morris - vocals, guitar
 * Karl Hunter - clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
 * Andy Rowley - baritone saxophone, background vocals
 * Glen "The Kid" Marhevka - trumpet, cornet
 * Joshua Levy - piano
 * Dirk Shumaker - acoustic bass, background vocals
 * Kurt Sodergren - drums

Technical

 * Michael Frondelli - coproducer, engineer, mixing
 * Brad Benedict - coproducer, engineer, mixing
 * Tom Peterson - horn arranger