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Thursday, March 2, 2023

King Joe & The Atlantics

Everybody Rock!

(Venture Recording)




Rhythm and Blues in the 1950s was an unashamedly cocksure proposition, its working class ethos of bacchanaliac character. This contemporary channeling of that spirit sounds much less like an afficianado's exhumation than joyfulness in its own wild and relevant right.

Honking saxophone and rippling ivories muscle in beside stalwart stand-up, guitar incisions, and spot-on skins to wreak a midnight party within hot wax grooves. It is a significant human accomplishment in this studio computer, autotune era. 

Grab a party chick and dive in.

Recommended: "Ride and Roll," "Ella Mae," "Chicken Shack Boogie," "The Girl Can't Help It," "Let Me Love You," "Ain't Gonna Stop All Night," "That's All...Good Night!," "Oooh Little Girl," "Evverybody Rock!"

Video: "Ride and Roll"

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FORMER staff writer for Rockabilly and Pin Up America magazines. FREELANCE credits include Daily Caller, American Thinker, Free Republic, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Independent Political Report, USA Today, Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Waterloo Courier, Cedar Falls Times, Marshalltown Times Republican, Cincinnati.com, IndyStar, Arizona Republic, No Depression, Goldmine, Blue Suede News, Rock and Rap Confidential, Crackerjack, Blues News, Wrecking Pit, Punk Globe, Prairie Sun, Music and Sound Output, BAM, New Music, and 1980s NYC fanzines Shake, Rattle, and Roll, Rebel Rouser, and Off the Wall. AUTHOR: Shake, Rattle and Rocket!, Ghost Saucers in the Sky!, Stratosphere Boogieman!, Flesh Made Music, That a Man Can Again Stand Up: American spirit vs, sedition during the incipient Trump Revolution, and Ideas Afoot: Political observations, social commentary, and media analyses. WORKED as 2004 Iowa coordinator for Ralph Nader independent presidential campaign; co-founded Iowa Green Party, also served as statewide media coordinator; press coordinator, 2002 Jay Robinson (Green) IA gubernatorial effort. Wrote extensively re Trump campaign..