On meeting a contestant on his TV show who had ten children, Groucho Marx famously quipped “I love a good cigar, but I take it out of my mouth from time to time.” Someone else who is fond of a good Cohiba Robusto is Kat Danser. But at least she takes it out of her mouth to sing. On the glorious ‘Bring It With You When You Come,’ backed by a lovely trumpet and piano, she reveals, ‘I’m laying around this little town smokin’ them cigars,’ whilst putting down some of the sweetest Dobro. Combustible and irresistible, this album is a must-have. Danser is a lecturer at University of Alberta’s ethnomusicology department and she is the real deal! Kat transports us to New Orleans for ‘Frenhman Street Shake,’ a cut which features a gorgeous brass section that Allen Toussaint would have lovingly approved of. ‘Take off your shoes, get on your knees,’ she sings, barking an order like a dominatrix, on ‘Get Right, Church’, which is a heated commentary on clerical abuse. Title-track ‘One Eye Open’ sees Kat coming on like John Lydon in ‘Pretty Vacant’, delivering a diatribe about the ex-President’s edicts, singing ‘Give me a reefer and let me go numb/while they nuke themselves to kingdom come’. Kat has ben vociferous in her abhorrence of Trump. This lady is smoking.