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 | Wild \\\'n\\\' Pretty |  | Beer 'n' Bourbon |  | The World Keeps Turning |  | Lets Have a Ball |  | Western Star Rockabillies Vol.2 |  | Western Star Rockabillies Vol.1 |
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 | 1 - Folsom Prison Bop
2 - I Want My Baby Now
3 - You Gimme Lovin'
4 - Hello Baby
5 - The Sheriff Man
6 - Bluer Than Blue
7 - Baby Fan The Flame
8 - Wild 'N' Pretty
9 - Jumping From Six To Six
10 - Teenage Ball
11 - (I Don't Know Why) She Make Me Feel Blue
12 - What I Did Wrong
13 - Teen Age Bug
14 - House Of The Rising Sun
| Bristol bar-hopping, hot-bopping wild-cats La Crioux and co kick up a classily creditable stink on this largely self-composed second Western Star album, at first appearances perhaps one more ideally suited to the ultra-aficionado. Though something of a stylistically strictured genre that can be accused of staying safe and not straying very far from shore, there’s plenty of leash-straining passion brewing up several storms over blueprints and blue caps( Russ Sear’s vocals frequently, though never detrimentally, sounding not unlike a whiskey-gargling Feargal Sharkey Gene Vincent), with expertise never resulting in stultifying, strait-laced performances. Nuances are subtle, as were Gram Parsons and the Byrds supposedly sacrilegious assaults on country music’s chastity belted treasures. As they freely admit in the sleeve slobber the big man in black doesn’t linger at the back, and along with a fine, mean-eyed, hackles-raised derailing of Folsom Prison away from the Blues and onto the Bop line, they add their own long black veil in the form of The Sheriff Man and an exhilarating chick-a-boom ghost ride tilt-a-tomb romp through House Of The Rising Sun. However, it’s the ever-failing , none-more fallen, lovelorn yet happ-rollin’ gambler of Bluer Than Blue and (I Don’t Know Why) She Makes Me Feel Blue, the high-rovin’ lover on You Gimme Lovin’ and awestruck title-track that make this a contender for current classic, as opposed to mere cult contender, over, above and soaked in its ribald, high-ballin’ spirits.
SG, Maverick Magazine, Issue 75, October 2008 | | |
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