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Daryl
Haywood Combo
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You
Treat Me Like A No Good!
Empire Records.
EMP-CD-107
You treat me like a
no good-Bankrobber-Heartbreak
train-If you want to be
my baby- Too much alike-Chicken
run rock'n'roll-That girl
of mine-Good time rag-Crazy
rhythm rock -I'm gone
baby gone-Red barn boogie-Rocketship
to planet love-Tell me-Be
my baby-Radar jump
Here is a finnish band
who is not afraid to
pledge. On the front of
their CD entitled “You
Treat me Like A No Good”
they promise us to find
“15 songs of love,
lust and misery”!
Then, is the challenge
won? I will tell you more
in a few…
But first, let me
introduce you to these
braggarts.
After a first self-produced
six titles mini-cd in
2004 (“Crazy Rhythm
Rock'n'roll”) one of
their song (“If You
Want To Be My Baby”)
was chosen for the first
european rockabilly
compilation on Empire
Records, the “Southern
and Rocking” Marc
Fenech’s label.
After a change of drummer
(Thomas who replaces
Harri “Dirty Harry”
Tuominen), this combo
with Kari Kunas on
guitar, Jake Lähdeniemi
on bass, guys who already
worked in other bands
like Rod Benders and
Phantom 409, leaded by
the singer and songwriter
Tero Lehtonen nicknamed
“Daryl Haywood”
haved finally signed,
still for Empire, their
first true CD of 15
titles including 13 ones
penned by Tero and Kari
of which two were already
present on their first
own-produced mini-Cd (“Crazy
Rhythm Rock” and
“Red Barn Boogie”).
But I can already hear
you answering yourself
“God damn, is that
bloody Long Tall son- of
-a-gun gonna tell us if
this CD keep its promises
or not!!! Don’t
hurry, here I come…
The rockabilly style of
this combo is very “authentic”
and sounds very “fifties”
(Decca, Coral and Modern
soundings are impossible
to forget main references).
This album is made up of
slow tempos with
sensuality, retained
violence and hiccups as
the first eponymous track
which opens the album,
the Charlie Feathers
“Too Much Alike”cover
or the excellent “Crazy
Rythm Rock” but
mostly of uptempo boppers
like “Bank Robber”,
“If You Want To Be
My Baby”, “I' m
Gone Baby Gone”,
“Tell Me”
“Be My Baby”.
There is also a “rocker”
track (“Chicken Run
Rock' Roll”), a
spanish flavoured mid-tempo
“Rocketship to
Planet Love” and
even two instrumentals of
which one is pickingful (“Good
Time Rag”) and the
other is powerful (“Jump
Radar”). Daryl’s
voice with his slight
accent is a kinda mix of
a Pat Cupp (there’s
a “That Girl Of Mine”
cover) Don Woody (on
“Heartbreak Train”
for example) and Jack
Scott (on “Too Much
Alike”). And what
about the promises made
to find “love, lust
and misery” ? It is
true that all the great
rockabilly themes are
here: the poor maltreated
bloke and cheated by his
“baby”,
machismo and ”male-independence”
(“If You Want To Be
My Baby”, “I' m
Gone Gone Baby”),crazy
and true love (“Rocketship
to Planet love”,
“Tell Me”
“Be My Baby”)
wildness and violence in
a “Bonnie and Clyde”
style (“Bankrobber”),
loneliness, train stories
(“Heartbreak Train”),
fast speed cars and to
sprinkle the whole
mixture some youth
unconcern, alcohol and
sex (“Crazy Rythm
Rock”, “Chicken
Run rock'n'roll' roll”,
“Red Boogie Barn”).
Nothing really new but
the contract is fulfilled
with fire, integrity and
a communicative pleasure
and this is the most
important fact, don’t
you think so?
Dave "Long
Tall" Phisel
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