Jinx Jones

Under the Neon Moonlight

(Vibrosound)

Bow low, when entering the palace chamber. Jinx pulls up a pillowed seat at the same roundtable as Barry Ryan, Chris Spedding, George Benson, and Danny B. Harvey. (From yon wall, gilded portraits of lamented heros like Joe Pass, Barney Kessel, Matt Murphy, Jimmy Bryant, Danny Cedrone, Charlie Christian, Danny Gatton, and Franny Beecher peer down on proceedings.) The guitar case Jinx hefts is festooned with stickers proclaiming genres from which he samples, an idiosyncratic admixture the end product. Jazz accentings daub passages as only they can. Rockabilly assertions jump up. Blues pensiveness murmurs. Even Bakersfield Country contributes. Beribboned cavalier Jinx renders them as coalesced body, and they celebrate spectacularly. 

Recommended: "Prelude Noir," "Rumble Street," "Get Out of This Place Alive," "Hittin' the Hard Stuff," "Duane's Train," "Cadillac Love Machine," "Neon Moonlight," "Million Dollar Fool," "Western Orange," "Lookin' for My Next Mistake," "Flippin' My Lid," "Love Letter from North Beach"

Videos: "Duane's Train"   "Cadillac Love Machine"   "Neon Moonlight"   "Million Dollar Fool"   "Western Orange"

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Ready to Go   digital or LP version

(Backfire Records / Tessy Records)

Rockabilly's twang took a spin around the safety-pin block, and came back all rough. Zero punches are pulled in this party house; revelers will discover full-on dynamism of professionally nimble nature that ensures maximum effect. As subtle as a half-brick to the head. (Paul Burlison tonal flourishes are appreciated, indeed.) On occasion, true, bombardments are kept under tighter rein, but that's only to cunningly switch between facets of the same bashed-knuckle battle plan. 

Recommended: "We Want it Loud," "Ready to Go," "Chick Pickin' Daddy," "Lonely Boy," "Pretty Baby," "Opposites Attract"

Videos: "Ready to Go"   "Pretty Baby"   "Opposites Attract" (live)  

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Tessy Records (Black and red LP versions)

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Jumpin' Rockets

Astro-Bash!

(DMG Germany)

"Astro-Bash!" and "Jumpin' Rockets" unfurl in the intergalactic-kicks spirit of the boss cover snap. But - deft musical gurus to the left and right - wall-to-wall enchantment here isn't solely composed of spaceman shenanigans. Reserved Jazz stateliness conjures in turns like "Everybody Loves My Baby." Songcraft is thoughtful and many splendored. Graceful guitar glistens. Rhythms soothe. Suggestive quietude washes ashore, only to be suddenly animated by vibrant onrush. "Supernova Bossa," a gentle stroll through absolute pleasance, offers harmonies one might find in a sunflower.

Recommended: "Astro-Bash!," "All Night Long," "Fell in Love with a Stranger," "Love Me Right," "Everybody Loves My Baby," "Jumpin' Rockets," "Wring-Out Boogie," "Only Lies," "I Don't Care," "Hot Rod Racin'," "Supernova Bossa"

Videos: "Astro-Bash!"   "All Night Long"   "Everybody Loves My Baby"   "Wring Out Baby"   "Supernova Bossa"

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Hitchcocks

Tales of Hitchcocks   300-copy, 4-track 7" orange vinyl, or 13-cut CD 

(Sunnyboy 66 / Latitude Zero Records)

For a bit of a notion as to the present circumstance, straddle a board atop cresting foams splashing through carnival funhouse mirrors, as beyond-Milky-Way tunery, charged by Don Post trick-or-treat mask-wearing outer space spooks with twang bars, reverbs through the Montgomery Ward transister radio you've pressed to an ear. Yeah, it's that good.

Recommended: "Halloween Night," "Interferencia UFO," "Passageiro do Futuro," "O Regresso," "Vampire Dancing," "Magma," "Spaceman," "A Noite do Besouro Verde"

Videos: promo clip   live clip   2nd live clip

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Video: "Freedom" (Chrysalis)

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Lee Rocker

"Jungle Rock"   digital single / video

(Upright Records)

Evident at each turn is that doghouse-manhandler Mr. Rocker is having a ball, in his frolicsome reinterpretation of Mizell's 1958 safari-territory jaunt. "I was walking through the jungle just the other night / Oh well, I heard a big a'rumble and I thought it was a fight" opens the madcap tale of wildlife whooping it up in fractured abandonment. Lee quickly gets the Sock: "We stopped there to listen, I began to move my feet / It was a jungle drummer doin' a knocked-out beat!" Assisted most ably by cats who are, themselves, adept at runaway, jitter-joint romping (their combined forces total upper-tier prosecution), Lee leads the finger-popping exploratory party's stomping down underbrush, as creatures great and small do dance sensations that are sweeping the menagerie nation.

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