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Scary Mary

(Western Star)

Demented Are Go doghouse-basher Grischa Dördelmann can also be found in the Dukes; his participation is basically a Seal of Psycho Approval. A general 1980s approach is evident in the roar and rumble that hulking Grischa et al drive home in their third waxing. From maniac guitar devastations, to skins pummeled so severely they seem about to rip into shreds, to a main throat whose owner probably crunches windshield glass between incisers and canines, each sinister stomp is lovingly scarred and thrown in indiscriminate avalanche. Get shellacked.

Recommended: "Nightmare," "Body Bag," "Eventually," "Old No. 7," "Sometimes It Kills Me Being Lonely," "Raving Mad," "Scary Mary"

Videos: "Nightmare"   "Eventually"   "Sometimes It Kills Me Being Lonely"   "Scary Mary"

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Emmie Lee

"Pin-up Cowgirl"   single

(Self-issued)

"I'm just a Country girl with a Rockabilly heart," is the plain-folks identification offered winkingly, by this skirt-snapper with tones of pearly lustre. As surely as Emmie Lee can plate-up melodies that slink arms about listeners, and the ace musicos accompanying m'lady put up comfortable reeling that hints at burly capacity, so too does she prove herself bang on, philosophically: "You don't have to fit in or change your world / just do what you love and let your soul be heard!" Truer words were never spake, pardner.

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Back in the Day, 1980

Whirlwind

Midnight Blue   12" vinyl

(Chiswick)

Less renowned than fellows Cavan and Graham, Nigel Dixon led Whirlwind as they cheekily straight-razored a spot for themselves in England's late '70s Neo-Rockabilly underworld. At his elbow as he transferred onstage hepkid energies to previously placid studio surroundings, were mates Mick Lewis, Phil Hardy, and Chris Emo; they revved twangy dynamism and sent it flying down midnight bricks.

Like the English/American Rockats, another hot-rodding enterprise of the era (and long beyond), Whirlwind enjoyed acclaim among adherants both slicked-back and spiked. Opening slots with Blondie, the Clash, and Ian Dury's Blockheads were naturals.

Ace Rockabilly no more contains unnecessary notes than elegant charcoal renderings are cluttered with superfluous scrawls. No such excess is to be located, here. Whirlwind members maintained self-assurance, even as they cruised on wheels of ferment. Chorded and pounded jaunts more gingered up could not be blueprinted.

After Whirlwind, Nigel teamed with erstwhile Clash bass-slammer Paul Simenon and Texas-born Blues guitar star Gary Myrick, in Havana 3AM. (Sadly, the singer passed in 1993.) Mick Lewis, whose trim six-string flashings had embroidered Whirlwind's fleet constructions with distinguishment, went on to numerous musical endeavors, including Fine Print.

Recommended: "Midnight Blue," "You Got Class," "Cruisin' Around," "Stay Cool," "Running Wild," "Okie's in the Pokie," "Heaven Knows," "Big Sandy," "Such a Fool," "Nightmares," "If it's All the Same to You," "Stayin' Out All Night"

Videos: "Midnight Blue"   "Okie's in the Pokie"   "Such a Fool"   "If it's All the Same to You"   "Don't Be Crazy" (non-LP, live TV)

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