Back In the Day: 1983

American Patrol

Backseat Boogie

(Vanity Records)

Having made his bones at Rollin' Rock and in Jimmy and the Mustangs, guitarist./singer Jerry Sikorski founded this swinging rockabilly quartet. With heavy emphasis on keys and Spyder Mittleman's honking saxophone -- and predating the BSO by years -- American Patrol reeled and rocked like few others were able. That the vibrant, textured combo never received the acclaim due it was an egregious injustice. Fortunately, vinyl lives on for longtime fans and a new crop of appreciators.  

Decades later,Sikorski teamed with Jim Leslie to revive American Patrol as a guitar-centered, Western-inflected unit.

Recommended: "Wildcat Shakeout," "Pretty Baby," "Shake the Roof," "Bewitched By My Baby," "Backseat Boogie," "Three Alley Cats," "Texas and Pacific," "Give It All You Got," "Prowler"

Video: "Shake the Roof"

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