Cherry & the Sours

"Crocodile Smile"   "Eat You Up"   digital singles

(Melissa Jayne Hernandez)

These cuts are the product of in-action engagement - airy and aburst with hearty pluck. That circumstance endorses; it's where fun is often found. "Crocodile Smile's" feet barely touch pavement, so headlong is the Neo-Rockabilly tune's dash. One all but feels winds jetting past. Matters become markedly different, though, when "Eat You Up," steps forward: shades-drawn sultriness spreads teasingly, instruments pulsing passionate ambiance.

Videos: "Crocodile Smile"   "Eat You Up"

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Back in the Day, 1964

Scotty Moore

The Guitar That Changed the World   vinyl 

(Sony Epic)

Of course, truck-driving kid Elvis loomed highest on the earlier Sun was incarnations of these earthquake, but the late Scotty and his polished, back-country master picking also claimed abundant regard; indeed, so much so that the inspirational flames he ignited then will surely blaze into perpetuity. As the legendary string-maestro enjoys instrumental latitude in these reinterpretations, his soloing is of greater body, its poised pronouncements make idiosyncratic impacts, and consistently adventurous articulations - ones echoing hillbilly persuasions and youthful exuberance - knock cats seasoned and crisp off their feet.

The cover asserts lofty credit: "And at [Elvis's] right hand from the beginning - from ragged rehearsals in a boardinghouse room and first record sessions to barnstorming the flatbed truck circuit, from flat-broke to that historic first appearance with Tommy Dorsey, from roadhouse to the glittering spotlight in Las Vegas, from hillbilly honky-tonk to Hollywood - Scotty was there."

In later years, this 1964 LP was rereleased in CD format.

Recommended: "Hound Dog," "Loving You," "Money Honey," "My Baby Left Me," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Don't Be Cruel," "Love Me Tender," "Mean Woman Blues"

Videos: "Money Honey"    "My Baby Left Me"   "Heartbreak Hotel"   "Mean Woman Blues"

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