VARIOUS – Yeah Yeah Yeah!
I know, I know– yet another dose of 60’s garage snot on SLN. Ho hum, right? Not a chance, dudes & dudettes! May I direct your attention to Track #24, the Roughnecks’ “You’re Driving Me Insane,” which is not only a killer slice of ramshackle teenage angst– BUT — it also [...]
February 29, 2008
Categories: Blues, Compilation, Garage Rock . Tags: Blues Magoos, Hound Dog Taylor, Lou Reed . Author: Jake Thee Pope . Comments: 9 Comments
VARIOUS – Risqué Rhythm: Nasty 50’s R&B
Now I’m no Pollyanna, but the canny use of the double entendré in R&R is all but lost. Unless you count the thousands of macho creeps who’ve followed Da Nuge’s lead with hackneyed, sub-literate Yank Me, Crank Me-isms (Sorry Nuge, ya know I love ya ‘n’ all, but between [...]
February 10, 2008
Categories: Blues, Compilation, R+B . Tags: Dinah Washington, Wynonie Harris . Author: Jake Thee Pope . Comments: 7 Comments
RAVEN – Back To Ohio Blues
self released 1975
Columbus, Ohio
Jesus, where do I begin? Okay, earlier this week I went to one of my favorite music sites SHIT-FI and read lead scribe Stuart Schrader’s hilarious and dead on review of Ohio (AGAIN?!) rock brute RAVEN’s ‘Back To Ohio Blues‘. A lot of times, when [...]
January 13, 2008
Categories: Blues, Psychedelia, Rock and Roll . Tags: Ohio, Raven (USA) . Author: marshottentot . Comments: 18 Comments
The following are posts from my old Blogger site. This is all I managed to dig up from Google’s cache so far. Some links are in the comments, some are not– so pay attention! PASS FOR ALL = sln2008
V/A – Break the Rules #8
Splitting from his partnership with Incognito, Peter P., who compiled the Back [...]
January 6, 2008
Categories: Blues, Compilation, Japan, Punk, Thrash . Tags: Break the Rules, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Rude Kids, S.D.S. . Author: Jake Thee Pope . Comments: 6 Comments
BLUES CREATION – Live!
Straight from the Japan Folk Jamboree Circa 1971 comes Thee Mighty Blues Creation with their brand of electrified/electrifying bastardized heavy rock riffage. Yer unworthy earholes will have an audial orgasm as Lord of Hot Licks Kazuo ‘Flash’ Takeda and his band of not-so-merry-men stomp all over those foolish notions you had about [...]
December 26, 2007
Categories: Blues, Japan, Rock and Roll . Tags: Blues Creation . Author: Jake Thee Pope . Comments: 6 Comments