Untamed
Blue Lake Records BLR-CD
13 Stressed up - Take Me
down - Don't Bug Me Baby
- Maybe You don't care -
The Slide - Rockin'
Machine - I've Got Love
if you want it - There'll
be no teardrops tonight -
Untamed - Raw Deal - I've
done my time - I ain't
gonna be around - I can't
do without you - Pink
Elephants
If you ever went to a
rockin’ weekender
recently, you probably
have met a wild blonde
girl with a sandpaper
voice, a blue guitar on
one hand and a glass on
the other, playing and
singin’ on the car
park or jammin’ with
a band. You have
experienced the
phenomenon Kick’em
Jenny. Try to figure
Wanda Jackson, Paul
Fenech, Josie Kreuzer and
Wildfire Willie all
rolled into one person.
Sounds weird, uh? But
you'd better listen.
She started to make her
name a couple of years
ago and her two songs on
the comp’ Lake
Rattle & Roll caught
the attention of every
wild rock’n’roll
fans (and even conquered
those who like softer
rockabilly like me). «
Stressed Up » proved to
be very popular (for good
reasons) among DJ’s
around the world. Juan
from Blue Lake quickly
understood he had a one
of a kind talent. He held
a second session to
complete the first one
and here’s at last a
full album by the
volcanic girl.
And as you can imagine
the result is a bunch of
raw and savage songs (five
from Jenny's pen), some
covers and a couple of
slower numbers like the
haunting "Take Me
Down" (imagine a
ballad given the Kick'em
Jenny treatment with one
kind of jungle atmosphere)
and on the hillbilly side
"I've done my time".
The thing is that Jenny
has no other equivalent
in her female
counterparts and more
generally on the
rockabilly scene.
As usual with Blue Lake,
a movie clip is included
(you can watch it on your
computer) showing the
sessions, and proving
that Juan deserves his
place in heaven for his
patience.
One of the best straight
rockabilly album I've
heard this year. Grab it
directly at Blue
Lake. Fred "Virgil"
Turgis
