What becomes of Father Schmoll, dear Eddy? He continues, that’s all. This is not the end of the track, nor the last session for Claude Moine dit Mitchell. While the son Dutronc announces for 2022 a tour with his paternal Jacquot, the most crooner old scoundrels come back to us with a 39e album of new songs. To start with A little bit of love country ballad for Johnny, the accomplice of Square de la Trinité: “For me you were more than a friend / A half-brother, almost a double / What is the use of stirring up the past?” Once the “hero of the street” has been greeted, Eddy shakes himself: Keep your nerves, with Memphis brass and Nashville harmonica, brings him back to the wheel, irascible and uncompromising, albeit a little edgy. He gets better once he arrives in Las Vegas, with the ghost of Elvis as his companion and Chuck Berry as an encore (nifty country-rock adaptation of You Never Can Tell). It ends in a boogie from beyond the grave: “Don’t talk about me when I’m no longer there!” It’s duly noted, Mr. Eddy.
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