Mickey Keller & the Spitfires
We're Gonna Ride!
(Tessy Records)
There're sound reasons one digging this might feel they've happened upon a bygone wood-cabinet Philco broadcast: Mickey, Matze, and the 'Stompin' Wolfman' are as in-their-grains nifty purveyors of Honky Tonk serenading (sans drums, natch) as one can locate in this internet age.
Then, too, there's their insistence on using only vintage fiddleyboos at Black Shack Recording. Original material of genial home-folks disposition settles in snugly with classics of yore penned by Stan Kesler and Charlie Feathers, Ben Hall, Roy Hall, and future Louisiana Governor Jimmy Davis (who also wrote "You Are My Sunshine.")
Steve Stick contributes vocals on a pair of tracks. And cover art by man of many gifts Marcel Bontempi gilds further. Turn up that radio dial.
Recommended: "Heartbreaking Love," "Mom & Pop," "Cold Dark Night," "I Forgot to Remember," "Hot Rod Baby," "Blue Days, Black Nights," "Tropicana Breeze," "Honky Tonk," "Pepperhot Baby," "Sweethearts or Strangers," "Let's Fall in Love," "I'm Gonna Ride," "Three Alley Cats"
Videos: promo clip "Heartbreaking Love" (live) "Hot Rod Baby" (live) "Pepperhot Baby" "I'm Gonna Ride" (rehearsal room recording)
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