"Like pouring gasoline on a fire" is how Brian Setzer describes 1998's double-platinum, Grammy-winning, Top 10-charting "The Dirty Boogie." But while Setzer wanted to fan the flames with the follow-up, he also wanted to jack up the octane.

"It would be an easy trap to fall into to do 'Dirty Boogie II,'" says Setzer. "The criticism of swing is that it's music from the past. I wanted to keep a lot of the same sound -- this isn't a harpsichord record all of a sudden -- but I wanted this to be music for 2000 and beyond.

"So we experimented, we stretched out. We said, 'Let's get crazy and go for it.'"