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Thursday, April 4, 2019

The Star Time Playboys
It's Star Time with...
(Martin's Garage Records)



Instrumental selections of gentle melodiousness in which pellucid, eminently tasteful tones shine in understated gleam. The beat, eyebrows arched, paces with measured sagacity.

Recommended: "Sugar Cube," "Red Rose Rag," "Don't Wait," "Swingin' With Zotel," "Barnyard Bop," "Starless Night"

Video: "Sugar Cube" (live)

https://www.facebook.com/startimepboys/

https://martinsgarage.bandcamp.com/album/its-star-time


https://www.amazon.com/Its-Star-Time-Playboys/dp/B01JFV10QC


https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-star-time-playboys/1138002765


https://open.spotify.com/album/6t7fLYAXfKB9napOGdXMIs



Urban Zotel and Tommy Harkenrider
Orange County Session
(Martin's Garage Records)



With disarming facility, Star Time Playboy Urban and Tommy prove that treble notes delicately summoned can produce more power than all the amplifiers in Arenaville. An unhurried, wordless  amble along pacific pathways.

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Marty Wendell
Rock and Roll Days
(Simply 21)




For all the justifiable attention paid the style's brash bearing, Marty digs that Rock needs to Roll. Winsome harmonies and finger-poppin' rhythmic sweeps were and remain essential. 

Recommended: "Rock and Roll Days," "Hey, Hey Mama," "Western Movies," "I Want to Rock and Roll," "Flea Bag Blues," "Page of Memories"

Video: "Rock and Roll Days"


https://www.facebook.com/marty.wendell.3



https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/martywendell7

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rock-roll-days/1457070893

https://ar.napster.com/artist/marty-wendell/album/rock-and-roll-days




Marty with Johnny Cash, 1968


Kristi Jean and Her Ne'er-Do-Wells
Country Billy Collision
(Kristi Jean / Gut Records)




Imagine a western-swing jukebox that pays you with trim and vivacious selections, all of which bounce agreeably along happy trails. 

Here 'tis. For those who ain't a-feared of fun.

Recommended: "I'm Having a Party All By Myself," "Stop, Look, and Listen," "Cryin' In the Deep Blue Sea," "Oakie Boogie," "Burn That Candle," "I Love You, Honey," "Baby, I Don't Care"

CD video overview


http://kristijeanmusic.com/home

https://www.facebook.com/kristijeanMusic/


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kristijean


https://www.amazon.com/Country-Billy-Collision-Kristi-Jean-Neer-Do-Wells/dp/B07PMH9K5D/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Kristi+Jean+%26+Her+Ne%27er-Do-Wells&qid=1553973259&s=dmusic&search-type=ss&sr=1-1


https://us.napster.com/artist/kristi-jean/album/country-billy-collision





Shanda and the Howlers
Hurt For Me (Wild Records)




It's a testament to the vitality of gut-grab blues that, when practiced this passionately by true believers of honest hearts, it can still slam home its charms, teachings, and scarlet temporal declarations with diverting immediacy. 

Recommended: "Hurt For Me," "Baby, You're the One," "Hold On," "Wait and See," "Good Morning Heartache" 

Video: "Hurt For Me"


http://www.shandaandthehowlers.com/index.html

https://www.facebook.com/shandathehowlers/



https://wildrecordsusa.com/

https://www.wildrecordseurope.com/shop/shanda-and-the-howlers-hurt-for-me.html

https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/shandathehowlers2



Desi Ramone
Rockin' Robin (single track)
(self)



The poindexters in lab coats surely know, as do the rest of us on the beam, that the crackling energy at Rockabilly's center since it first burst upward into 5th-Dimensional consciousness will doubtless burn brightly into perpetuity. And our lives are just plain better for that.


Track: Rockin' Robin


http://www.desiramone.com/

https://www.facebook.com/DesiRamoneRodeoDairies/



https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/desramone

https://www.amazon.com/Rockin-Robin-Desi-Ramone/dp/B07PR1YPQR

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rockin-robin-single/1456513479





Monday, March 25, 2019

Los High Tops and
Chantilly Lace Vincent
A Curse For the Lonely
(Los High Tops/Buzzking)



As on-paper impressive as is this confederation of a sinewy rockabilly squadron and the fabled Catman's lissome progeny, it bursts into truest conflagration when stylus locates groove.

Recommended: "A Curse For You" (LHT and CLV), "Black Cat" (LHT), "Hot Rod Mama" (LHT and CLV), "Walkin' the Floor" (LHT), "Tuesday Night" (LHT), "Jim Beam" (LHT and CLV)

Video: "A Curse For You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMC5onY1rj4


http://loshightops.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LosHighTops/

http://chantillylacevincent.com/

https://www.facebook.com/chantillylacevincent/


https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/loshightops12




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FORMER staff writer for Rockabilly and Pin Up America magazines. FREELANCE credits include Daily Caller, American Thinker, Free Republic, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Independent Political Report, USA Today, Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Waterloo Courier, Cedar Falls Times, Marshalltown Times Republican, Cincinnati.com, IndyStar, Arizona Republic, No Depression, Goldmine, Blue Suede News, Rock and Rap Confidential, Crackerjack, Blues News, Wrecking Pit, Punk Globe, Prairie Sun, Music and Sound Output, BAM, New Music, and 1980s NYC fanzines Shake, Rattle, and Roll, Rebel Rouser, and Off the Wall. AUTHOR: Shake, Rattle and Rocket!, Ghost Saucers in the Sky!, Stratosphere Boogieman!, Flesh Made Music, That a Man Can Again Stand Up: American spirit vs, sedition during the incipient Trump Revolution, and Ideas Afoot: Political observations, social commentary, and media analyses. WORKED as 2004 Iowa coordinator for Ralph Nader independent presidential campaign; co-founded Iowa Green Party, also served as statewide media coordinator; press coordinator, 2002 Jay Robinson (Green) IA gubernatorial effort. Wrote extensively re Trump campaign..