A
Starlit Shindig With
El Tore Records ETCD 4012 Jukebox
Tell My Baby - Kwitchurbelyakin - Game of
Love - Falling for You -
Where's Ya Stay Last Night?- 255
Flattie - Ten Year Itch - Little Martian
Honey- Honestly - Lover's Moon - Lonesome
Truck Driver Blues - Rock Boppin' Again
Here you have the third album from that
british band still on that great Spanish
label El Toro. The majority of the songs
- eight - from this album are from the
pen of singer/guitarist Mick Cocksedge,
and like the previous one there's a
little bit for everyone. You'll find a
hillbilly lament (Jukebox Tell My Baby)
with pedal steel which is also present on
the hillbilly bop The Game Of Love
and Lovers Moon. It
also adds a feeling of loneliness on
Lonesome Truck Driver Blues,
and even if the songs is credited to Bill
Monroe their version owes more to Bob
Newman. Of course you have a good dose of
rockabilly, never too wild but a good
collection of mid tempoes like
Rock Boppin Again,
Kwitchurbelyakin and Where'd
Ya Stay Last Night? which is a bit
more modern than the other one. The
hillbilly bop/rockabilly 255
Flattie is one of my favourite with
questions/answers between the lead singer
and the backing vocals and Eddie Potters
take off guitar. Potter also wrote Ten
Year Itch which also has a bit of a
modern edge mixed with Hank WilliamsRamblin
Man. Very good. Little Martian
Honey is a solid rockabilly with
heavy slapbass and wild guitar but one
could regret the mix that buries the
voice too much on this one. The doo-wop
band The Roomates adds their sweet voice
on two slow and beautiful songs Falling
For You and Honestly.
One fine album with different
arrangements and moods. Fred "Virgil" Turgis
Radiation
Bop El Toro Records. ETCD 4011 Honey
Honey - I Missed You - Simmer Down - Dont
Tease Me - Radiation Bop - Shake Her
Shack - For Always - Flipside Mama -
Knock Knock Knock - I Stole Today - Write
Me A Letter - Hey Mr Plane - Thats
When It All Went Wrong - Rock And Roll On Talking about nuclear energy here is
another fucking good trio from England
with a self-penned album. Among the 14
titles of that album youll no doubt
find something for you with sometimes
beat sometimes delicacy: some first class
rockabilly («Flipside Mama», «Knock
Knock Rock») some hillbilly («Simmer
Down» «Shake Her Shack», «Write My
Baby A Letter») a honky-tonkin one
in a Johnny Horton way («I Stole Today»),
some «Jets» sounding («Dont
Tease Me» and «Hey Mr Plane»reminds me
the famous british band) and a little doo-wopin
(«For Always» with the Roomates backing
vocals).The first «Honey Honey» written
by the singer Mick Cocksedge is gonna
grab you like it grabbed me with its
tapering and piercing guitar. Their «Radiation
Bop» with the burlisonian sounding
rockabilly guitar from Ed Potter and the
Jose Espinosas bullfiddle will
explode in your face. «Rock and Roll On»
a «Buddy Holly style» end that second
album from a to be closely followed band. David "Long Tall" Phisel