Doctor Mooney's 115th Dream

Shadowed Vengeance: The Black Keys, “Ten Cent Pistol”

2010-11-28T22:15:00.003-05:00

Six albums in, The Black Keys have kicked up an undisputed knockout—their finest full-length to date. Brothers, this motley collection spots the Akron hoodoo men uncorking their thrilling line of seething blues romps and fueling it further with wrenching soul-squeezed shakedowns.

On “Ten Cent Pistol,” Auerbach and Carney plumb to the depths of soul’s shadowed underbelly – the sinister drum march, foreboding doom and six-string hollow bodied weep signals the funeral procession to come, Auerbach’s sharp rasp details the tale: “there she was / behind the door / she hit them with / her ten cent pistol, / because they ruined her name”

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Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck’s Yardbirds Keep A-Rollin’, “Stroll On”
Aloe Blacc’s Greenback Hustle, “I Need A Dollar”
John Fogerty’s One-Man Band: Blue Ridge Rangers, “Working on a Building”
Sacred Steel Bellows: Robert Randolph & The Family Band, “If I Had My Way”
The Temptations’ Unchained Battle Cry, “War”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck’s Yardbirds Keep A-Rollin’, “Stroll On”

2010-11-21T15:15:00.002-05:00

The short-live Page-Beck association lasted less than six months, assembling triplets of unruly death defying acts of studio recorded musical fisticuffs: “Happenings Ten Years Time Ago,” “Psycho Daisies” and “Stroll On.”

Their crowning triumph, “Stroll On,” an unruly overhaul of “Train Kept A-Rollin’,” was featured during a short club sequence in Michaelo Antonioni’s swinging London art flick, Blow Up [see below]. Patients, this cut will hit yer rock 'n roll stethoscopes with fireball force, a sonic meltdown. Yes, the twosome’s double lead wall of racket sounds like a sex act between two consenting locomotives. But this is slashing, doom-laden boogie, a thick flamethrower-swarm of fuzz and feedback on the warpath. The lineup critics referred to as ‘World War Three’ severed ties shortly thereafter.

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Aloe Blacc’s Greenback Hustle, “I Need A Dollar”
John Fogerty’s One-Man Band: Blue Ridge Rangers, “Working on a Building”
Sacred Steel Bellows: Robert Randolph & The Family Band, “If I Had My Way”
The Temptations’ Unchained Battle Cry, “War”
Smokey Voltage: Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs’ “The Devil’s in the Jukebox”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Aloe Blacc’s Greenback Hustle, “I Need A Dollar”

2010-11-17T22:15:00.002-05:00

Patients, the word is out on Aloe Blacc, neo-soul man number one. The kind of act that rolls with the tide and talks about the struggles of the times. The one-time rapper in duo Emanonc becomes a full-fledged soul stirrer, on the verge with his sophomore full-length, Good Things.

An Ode For The Financially Strapped

No track in 2010 has managed to tap into the doom and gloom of the era like Aloe Blacc’s bold 21st century depression anthem “I Need A Dollar.” Pegged as the entrance theme to HBO’s How To Make It In America--Blacc’s pleading velvet croon heightens with every hook--a piping hot recession jingle that fuses social consciousness with ‘70s soul reflections. Nothing new, but a modernized rendition of these troubling times, that will seize your heart and billfold (hey, hey).

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John Fogerty’s One-Man Band: Blue Ridge Rangers, “Working on a Building”
Sacred Steel Bellows: Robert Randolph & The Family Band, “If I Had My Way”
The Temptations’ Unchained Battle Cry, “War”
Smokey Voltage: Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs’ “The Devil’s in the Jukebox”
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ Nocturnal Bark, “I Put A Spell On You”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

John Fogerty’s One-Man Band: Blue Ridge Rangers, “Working on a Building”

2010-11-10T22:15:00.004-05:00

The Father, Son, and Holy Choogle

In the spring of ’73, John Fogerty was an all-star--a union of one. After cutting ties with Top-40 radio kings Creedence Clearwater Revival, he declared independence from CCR with a smokescreen, saddling up and moonlighting as Blue Ridge Rangers. His eponymous solo record, Blue Ridge Rangers is a one-man show--Fogerty dispatched as arranger, singer, player and producer--delivering pristine treatments to twelve C&W and traditional numbers ranging from Hank Williams’ “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” to George Jones’ “She Thinks I Still Care.”

One of our favorite tracks, the gospel-flavored “Working on a Building” kicks off the second side. Originally cut by Heavenly Gospel Singers, Fogerty absorbed the spiritual from an early Stanley Brothers interpretation. This rendering seizes joyful exuberance with immovable, Creedence-tinged geetar, fiddle, steel, banjo and flushed layers of resonating vocal assaults, effectively capturing the spirit and reshaping it into an industrial-strength soot-smeared rocker of the holiest denomination.

“Working on a Building”
Written by: Lillian M Bowles and Winifred O Hoyle

I'm workin' on a building, I'm workin' on a building,
I'm workin' on a building, for my Lord, for my Lord.
If IIIIIIIIIIIIII were a drunkard, tell you what I'd do,
I'd quit my drinkin', and work on a building too.
[Chorus:]
I'm workin' on a building, I'm workin' on a building,
I'm workin' on a building, for my Lord, for my Lord.
It'a a Holy Ghost building, It'a a Holy Ghost building,
It'a a Holy Ghost building, for my Lord, for my Lord.
If IIIIIIIIIIIIII were a gambler, tell you what I'd do,
I'd quit my gamblin', and I'd work on a building too.
[Chorus]
If IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII were a preacher, tell you what I'd do,
I'd keep on preachin', and I'd work on a building too.
[Chorus x3]

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Sacred Steel Bellows: Robert Randolph & The Family Band, “If I Had My Way”
The Temptations’ Unchained Battle Cry, “War”
Smokey Voltage: Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs’ “The Devil’s in the Jukebox”
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ Nocturnal Bark, “I Put A Spell On You”
Robert Plant and Band of Joy’s Divine Rumble, “Angel Dance”
Inescapable Barbed Joy: The Wright Specials, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Sacred Steel Bellows: Robert Randolph & The Family Band, “If I Had My Way”

2010-11-08T21:15:00.002-05:00

Pedal steel gunslinger, Robert Randolph harnessed esteemed producer T-Bone Burnet’s well-tuned ear for counsel on We Walk This Way - his first studio album in four years. He was rewarded with a history lesson, excavating over a century of rock, blues and gospel. Randolph voices, “T-Bone opened my eyes to great archival music. He's a link between the past and the present."

This 11-song collection is a first-class work, including revamped dupes of Bob Dylan's "Shot of Love," "Walk Don't Walk" by Prince and John Lennon's "I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama.” But it’s the exorcism and renovation of Blind Willie Johnson’s gospel-blues number “If I Had My Way” that leaps out at our rock ‘n roll stethoscopes. Featuring an ace guest spot on slide and vocals by Ben Harper; the barnstorming track’s vivid wails burn with turpentine grace and give reason to drop kudos on the lawless strut of We Walk This Way.

Robert Randolph & The Family Band: Robert Randolph, pedal steel, vox; Danyel Morgan, bass; Marcus Randolph, drums

We Walk This Way is out now on Warner Bros.

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The Temptations’ Unchained Battle Cry, “War”
Smokey Voltage: Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs’ “The Devil’s in the Jukebox”
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ Nocturnal Bark, “I Put A Spell On You”
Robert Plant and Band of Joy’s Divine Rumble, “Angel Dance”
Inescapable Barbed Joy: The Wright Specials, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do”
Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

The Temptations’ Unchained Battle Cry, “War”

2010-11-06T20:15:00.001-04:00

Nineteen sixty-nine, the newly christened socially conscious, psychedelic Temptations are given first crack at the Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong-penned crusade against bloodshed in Vietnam for Psychedelic Shack - the third album featuring the rumbling vocal attack of soul belter Dennis Edwards. For their rendition The Tempts’ give “War” a boot camp shelling complete with urgent get-up-and-go vocals, fiery backing and sergeant major shouts, "hup, two, three, four.”

The track was so potent that Motown received thousands of letters begging them to release "War" as a single. Motown’s management viewed the song as too controversial, handing it off to Agent-Double-O-Soul, Edwin Starr to inject it with his own venomous punch.

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Smokey Voltage: Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs’ “The Devil’s in the Jukebox”
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ Nocturnal Bark, “I Put A Spell On You”
Robert Plant and Band of Joy’s Divine Rumble, “Angel Dance”
Inescapable Barbed Joy: The Wright Specials, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do”
Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"
Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Smokey Voltage: Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs’ “The Devil’s in the Jukebox”

2010-11-04T22:15:00.003-04:00

Ray LaMontagne is a love-jinxed troubadour, carrying an old soul. According to lore, during a spell working in a Maine shoe factory he was sparked to kick start his music career after hearing the Stephen Stills tune “Treetop Flier” by way of transistor radio. Four long-players on, the singer-songwriter has waxed the dazzling God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise with his gutsy backing band, The Pariah Dogs—Eric Heywood (guitar), Jennifer Condos (bass), Patrick Warren (keyboard), Eric Heywood (pedal steel) Greg Leisz, (pedal steel) and Jay Bellerose (drums).

By album close, LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs are rushing full-throttle - on the brink, hammers down, smoldering thirty-eights drawn. Patients, “The Devil’s in the Jukebox” is an impossible number to keep a lid on – a heavy stepped, no-frills dance escorted by unshakeable harp squalls and LaMontagne’s thirty-six grit sandpaper squawk. The floor boards will rattle.

God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise is out now on RCA Records

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Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ Nocturnal Bark, “I Put A Spell On You”
Robert Plant and Band of Joy’s Divine Rumble, “Angel Dance”
Inescapable Barbed Joy: The Wright Specials, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do”
Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"
Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ Nocturnal Bark, “I Put A Spell On You”

2010-10-31T19:15:00.003-04:00

The one-time golden gloves victor was a well-oiled booze machine when unloading the demented spooky carnage of “I Put A Spell On You.” It was intended to be a sweet love ballad before head of Columbia Records Arnold Maxim fetched some gin and whiskey for the session; sinister pie-eyed madness ensued.

Throughout his finest three minutes on wax, his first — and only — hit, backed by a menacing ghoulish shuffle, Hawkins comes off as a deranged R&B evangelist. His wicked spectral baritone oozing snarled feral shouts, “I put a spell on you / Because you're mine,” The spine-chilling track became an underground smash, selling a quarter of a million copies, in spite of being outlawed from the radio waves.

“I Put A Spell On You”
OKeh Records, 1956
Written by: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Produced by: Leroy Kirkland

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine

Stop the things you do
Whoahuh - what's up?
I ain't lyin'
Yeaaah, i can't stand - hoo!
No runnin' around
I can't stand
No put me down
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
Whoahaa - yeah!
Woah!

[sax solo]

Stop the things you do
Whoahuh - what's up?
I ain't lyin'
Aahh!! aah! i love you
I love you
I love you anyhow
I don't care if you don't want me
I'm yours right now
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine, mine
Mine!!! aah whoahh huh

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Robert Plant and Band of Joy’s Divine Rumble, “Angel Dance”
Inescapable Barbed Joy: The Wright Specials, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do”
Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"
Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”
Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Robert Plant and Band of Joy’s Divine Rumble, “Angel Dance”

2010-10-30T21:15:00.005-04:00

Rock ‘n roll’s majestic elder statesman Robert Plant’s first long player since 2007's triumphant, Grammy-winning Raising Sand, alludes to the Birmingham-based, blues wielding gang he fronted in the mid-sixties, Band of Joy.

The former Led Zeppelin lead man resurrected Band of Joy with a new cast of players — co-producer Buddy Miller, electric guitar; Darrell Scott, acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, accordion, pedal steel; Patty Griffin, vocals; Byron House, bass and Marco Giovino, drums. Recorded in Nashville, the album was recently ruled one of the doctors’ and nursemaids’ favorite records of the year. Plant remarks, “I wanted to bring my personality to other people’s songs and kick the door open a little bit…or edge it open with my hips.”

Check out the rejuvenated Los Lobos track “Angel Dance.” An unwavering onslaught of stormy reverb leads into rhythm rocked gently; Plant uproots his weathered croon, “And they'll laugh up and down the hall / Don't you go shout when you hear them fall / Let them fly across the wall / Let them cry 'til the morning calls / Little angel dance."

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Inescapable Barbed Joy: The Wright Specials, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do”
Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"
Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”
Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”
Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Inescapable Barbed Joy: The Wright Specials, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do”

2010-10-26T22:15:00.002-04:00

The Gospel According To Gordy

Spawned off the success of the Motor City hit machine Motown records, Berry Gordy’s short-lived subsidiary, Divinity served as an outlet for spiritual and gospel music. Narrowly unleashing four singles: The Wright Specials’ “That’s What He Is To Me” (9904), Gospel Stars’ “Give God A Chance“ (9906), Burnadettes’ “First, You’ve Got To Recognize God (9907) and our favorite, a bona fide pew burner, The Wright Specials second Divinity single, “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do” (9905). You might be accustomed to the versions by Wilson Pickett and Creedence Clearwater Revival – this fevered take on the gospel spiritual is an open-hearted, savior summoning call to action, a stunning blow to the “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won’t Do” canon.

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Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"
Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”
Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”
Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”
Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Kings of Leon and their Big Rock, "Mary"

2010-10-24T13:15:00.007-04:00

The Kings of Leon, meddling sons of a preacher man, have set up at a crossroads after their multi-platinum, Grammy-winning breakthrough Only By The Night. Nine years on and five albums in, the Followills’ have risen from indie darlings, once christened the Southern Strokes, to glossy arena-ready rockers, soaring into the mainstream – heirs to the rock ‘n roll throne.

For their fifth long-player, Come Around Sundown, the Followill family band, uprooted from Nashville and recorded in Midtown Manhattan – they stick to their guns, cloning the template that fueled sales upwards of 6 million, making for an unremarkable experience, an unfocused album lacking bite. Yeah, you guessed it patients, the doctors and nursemaids are suckers for the first three KoL albums, with the lads Followill riding their Southern-fried swagger and moonshine-fueled rollercoaster: Youth and Young Manhood, Aha Shake Heartbreak and Because of the Times.

Tennessee’s rock patriarchs shine on the anthemic standout track, “Mary,” where they toy with hard-driving doo-wop, bringing it South of the Mason Dixon line. The track gets off the ground swaying with frontman Followill drawling, “Mary, if you want to / I waive my right / I'll be on the corner / Just passin' time,” backed by spurred guitar jabs and steady as bedrock rhythm. There’s even an indulgent, on the loose guitar solo – a rarity in their canon.

Come Around Sundown is out now on RCA

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Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”
Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”
Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”
Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”
John Lennon’s Junk Sick Noise, “Cold Turkey”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Doris Troy’s Sturdy Soul Caper, “You Give Me Joy Joy”

2010-10-21T23:15:00.001-04:00

Discovered by soul general, James Brown during a stint as an usherette at Harlem’s Apollo, Doris Troy bagged her first top-ten hit for Atlantic with, “Just One Look” in 1963. She continued, singing backup on “My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison, Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” and on celebrated albums, Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd's, Dark Side Of The Moon.

In 1970 George Harrison signed ‘Mama Soul’ to Apple Records and waxed her self-titled long player, to little promotion and fanfare -- even though the album featured a mighty troupe of all-stars: Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Stephen Stills, Leon Russell, Ringo Starr, Jackie Lomax, Klaus Voorman, Peter Frampton, George Harrison and Delaney & Bonnie. Check out the doctors’ and nursemaids’ favorite number, the Troy/Harrison/Starr/Stills penned groover, “You Give Me Joy Joy” – a track steeped in soulful British blues revival, featuring six-string assaults by Harrison and Stills.

Doris Troy, vocals; George Harrison, guitar; Stephen Still, guitar; Ringo Starr, Drums; Klaus Voorman, bass; Leon Russell, piano.

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Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”
Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”
Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”
John Lennon’s Junk Sick Noise, “Cold Turkey”
Sharon Jones’ Heat Seeking Howl; Dap-Kings Rumble, “Money”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Dialed In: The Black Angels, “Telephone”

2010-10-19T22:15:00.001-04:00

The Black Angels lifted their name from the Velvet Underground cut "The Black Angels Death Song" – their sound: stirring up the late 60s with threatening bolts of bleeding reverb and bone-chilling psychedelic tidal waves, sturdy as the hangman's rope.

With two albums under their belts, Passover and Directions to See a Ghost, the Austin-based quintet signed to the iconic and recently re-launched Blue Horizon Records, setting free their highly anticipated Phosphene Dream. Produced by Dave Sardy, this set finds the band pushing and expanding, further into a new direction: Less doom, tighter reverb drenched drone-spun rock and added heavy handed pop sensibilities.

The biggest eye-opener comes nine songs in with the album’s zippy second single, “Telephone.” The band deep-sixes the drone, pops the clutch and hightails it with a take charge rave-up – a darting retro nod that unpacks overjoyed surges of frisky go-go organ and gusty six-string jangle, in under two minutes.

Phosphene Dream is out now on Blue Horizon Records

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Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”
Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”
John Lennon’s Junk Sick Noise, “Cold Turkey”
Sharon Jones’ Heat Seeking Howl; Dap-Kings Rumble, “Money”
Scream Black Merda, “Cynthy-Ruth”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Meet Koko Taylor’s Sledgehammer Shout, “Wang Dang Doodle”

2010-10-14T23:15:00.004-04:00

The Willie Dixon-penned, “Wang Dang Doodle” employs one of the most colorful casts of back alley juke joint characters ever assembled: Automatic Slim, Razor Totin' Jim, Butcher Knife Totin' Annie, Fast Talking Fanny, Washboard Sam and Pistol Pete. Enter fire-breathing wailer Koko Taylor, the South Side dame who injected heart and soul into this stomping, no-nonsense shakedown about kicking off your shoes and partying down.

Discovered by Willie Dixon in the early sixties, Koko Taylor cut the earthquake-inducing “Wang Dang Doodle” in 1966, selling over a million – Chess Records’ last top ten hit. Koko’s take is an earsplitting force of nature, detonating with her thrilling barbarous wail and the hurried gallop and shotgun bite of her backing, no wonder she was crowned Queen of the Blues – all rise.

“Wang Dang Doodle”
Written by: Willie Dixon

Tell Automatic Slim , tell Razor Totin' Jim
Tell Butcher Knife Totin' Annie, tell Fast Talking Fanny
A we gonna pitch a ball, a down to that union hall

We gonna romp and tromp till midnight
We gonna fuss and fight till daylight
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long, All night long

Tell Kudu-Crawlin' Red, tell Abyssinian Ned
Tell ol' Pistol Pete, everybody gonna meet
Tonight we need no rest, we really gonna throw a mess
We gonna to break out all of the windows,
we gonna kick down all the doors
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long, All night long

Tell Fats and Washboard Sam, that everybody gonna to jam
Tell Shaky and Boxcar Joe, we got sawdust on the floor
Tell Peg and Caroline Dye, we gonna have a time
When the fish scent fill the air, there'll be snuff juice everywhere
We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long
All night long, All night long

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Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”
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Sharon Jones’ Heat Seeking Howl; Dap-Kings Rumble, “Money”
Scream Black Merda, “Cynthy-Ruth”
Ragged Daydream: The Moondoggies, “It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity””

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‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Karen Elson’s Twisted Elegance, “The Truth Is In The Dirt”

2010-10-12T21:15:00.002-04:00

With her brick red mane and milky white complexion, red-hot British belle Karen Elson is more than a fetching face in the crowd -- yeah she’s Jack White’s ball and chain, but she is also a founding member of cabaret troupe The Citizens Band.

Recorded at Third Man Studios in Nashville, Music City chanteuse’s debut outing, The Ghost Who Walks covers sweeping swathes of haunted terrain: from vintage dust bowl country twang to weather beaten gothic folk stylings. The breathtaking second single, “The Truth Is In The Dirt” has managed to take hold as the asylum’s favorite cut: shocks of spooky organ crack while slinking guitar lines entombed in fuzz lurk behind Elson’s distilled croon: “The truth is in the dirt on the ground / not on the blazing horse from the midnight sun / the fire will turn your bones to dust,”

“The Truth Is In The Dirt”
Written by: Karen Elson

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
not in your gilded cage with your rusted spoon
when the ground splits open it will swallow you

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
not in your poison tongue or your acid tears
let the truth howl in your ears

You should come, it's killing time
flames are burning behind her eyes
here she comes, it's killing time
flames are burning behind her eyes

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
Not in your claws, drawn-out scratch 'til it bleeds
knocked down dead gets what she needs

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
not on the blazing horse from the midnight sun
the fire will turn your bones to dust

here she comes, it's killing time
flames are burning behind her eyes
here she comes, it's killing time
flames are burning behind her eyes

The truth is in the dirt on the ground
The truth is in the dirt on the ground
not in your gilded cage with your rusted spoon
when the ground splits open it will swallow you

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Scream Black Merda, “Cynthy-Ruth”
Ragged Daydream: The Moondoggies, “It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity””
Lost and Found: Ron Davies, “It Ain’t Easy”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

John Lennon’s Junk Sick Noise, “Cold Turkey”

2010-10-08T23:15:00.020-04:00

Cast off as a Beatles single release at the tail end of their Abbey Road sessions, the raucous guttural stomp of “Cold Turkey” made its inaugural appearance during the Toronto Rock & Roll Revival 1969. Two weeks later, Lennon and his band of misfits, The Plastic Ono Band, including Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr, recorded the ode to kicking heroin cold turkey style at Abbey Road and Trident Studios. The track hit number 14 in the United Kingdom, and number 30 in the United States, despite being banned from American airwaves.

You can practically feel the shiver-inducing, heavy heroin gloom in this track: suffering, pain and anguish in Lennon’s smack-addled, tortured wail, along with Clapton’s potent, hypnotizing jagged riff. The lack of treble and echo in Starr’s kit and Voormann's bass evokes an eerie hopelessness. Lennon moans, “I promise you anything / Get me out of this hell / Cold turkey has got me / On the run,”

John Lennon, vocals, electric guitar; Eric Clapton, electric guitar; Klaus Voormann, bass; Ringo Starr, drums.

“Cold Turkey”
Written by: John Lennon

Temperature's rising,
Fever is high,
Can't see no future,
Can't see no sky.

My feet are so heavy,
So is my head,
I wish I was a baby,
I wish I was dead.

Cold turkey has got me on the run.

My body is aching,
Goose-pimple bone,
Can't see no body,
Leave me alone.

My eyes are wide open,
Can't get to sleep,
One thing I'm sure of,
I'm in at the deep freeze.

Cold turkey has got me on the run.
Cold turkey has got me on the run.

Thirty-six hours,
Rolling in pain,
Praying to someone,
Free me again.

Oh I'll be a good boy,
Please make me well,
I promise you anything,
Get me out of this hell.

Cold turkey has got me on the run.
Oh-, oh-, oh--, oh...

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Ragged Daydream: The Moondoggies, “It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity””
Lost and Found: Ron Davies, “It Ain’t Easy”
Soul Survivor: Mavis Staples, “Creep Along, Moses”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Sharon Jones’ Heat Seeking Howl; Dap-Kings Rumble, “Money”

2010-10-07T22:15:00.004-04:00

With four albums under their belts--including 2007’s 100 Days, 100 Nights--and their newfangled Bosco Mann-produced, Daptone Records-released, I Learned The Hard Way, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings have managed to become more than a copy-cat band; successfully carrying on the long-lasting tradition of celebrated, American soul groups.

Check out their power-packed ode to “Money,” where soul sister number one is pining for coin and dishing on the recession, “Money, why won’t you stay awhile? /…. Banks folding / President scratching his head / The economy is bad / Wall Street about to lose their mind / Going up and down,” This is a street-tough track that lurks to start, smooth as dynaflow, building into a full-fledged blistering seismic shuffle - a funktified wildfire where the eight-piece Dap-Kings set the backing ablaze.

Sharon Jones, vocals. The Dap Kings are: Homer Steinweiss, drums; Binky Griptite, guitar; Bugaloo Velez, congas; Dave Guy, trumpet; Tommy 'TNT' Brenneck, guitar; Bosco Mann, bass; Neal Sugarman,Tenor; Ian Hendrickson-Smith, baritone.

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Lost and Found: Ron Davies, “It Ain’t Easy”
Soul Survivor: Mavis Staples, “Creep Along, Moses”
Get To Know Bo Diddley’s Amplified Heat Wave, “I Can Tell”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Scream Black Merda, “Cynthy-Ruth”

2010-10-04T22:15:00.003-04:00

The Motor City quartet, branded with a menacing moniker - initially Murder Incorporated, Black Murder and finally settling up on the less quarrel-inducing Black Merda—originally served as backing for agent of soul, war-groovster Edwin Starr. Later, they snubbed offers from Motown producer Norman Whitfield and Temptations’ first tenor, Eddie Kendricks, eventually signing with Chicago-based Chess records – home of their favorite album, Muddy Waters' Electric Mud (1968).

In 1970, Chess released Black Merda’s self-titled long player to little fanfare. A killer slab of bullet-laced funk somewhere in between Hendrix-like wailing, scrapyard grinds and the high octane p-funk of Parliament. Patients, Black Merda should have been a stone cold knockout.

The double-barreled bombast of debut single “Cynthy-Ruth” (2095) is the cut rocking our rock ‘n roll stethoscopes. This is a bonafide classic, stamped with its hard-boiled encroaching haze of wah-wahs, soulscarring grunts and ‘Hoo-Hoo’ uppercuts.

Black Merda: Anthony Hawkins; guitar, Charles Hawkins; guitar, VC Veasey; bass, Tyrone Hite; drums

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Lost and Found: Ron Davies, “It Ain’t Easy”
Soul Survivor: Mavis Staples, “Creep Along, Moses”
Get To Know Bo Diddley’s Amplified Heat Wave, “I Can Tell”
Hacienda’s High Octane Prowl, “Who’s [sic] Heart Are You Breaking”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Ragged Daydream: The Moondoggies, “It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity”

2010-10-02T20:15:00.005-04:00

Patients, meet the Moondoggies, the Pacific Northwest’s remedy to your musical doldrums. With their 10-track sophomore album, Tidelands in the can – awaiting release on Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art on October 12 - the Emerald City foursome will hit the road with Laurel Canyon ragamuffins, Dawes, on a brief Fall tour through the Midwest and West Coast.

Leadoff cut, “It’s a Shame, It’s a Pity” starts hushed, peaceful, strolling with a back porch acoustic groove. The song ignites with panoramic flare when the full band kicks in: striking three-part harmonies, pounding rhythm, sinking their roots deep into the best of what vintage blend Americana has to offer. Frontman Kevin Murphy, “Many of the lyrics came to me while trying to be constructive in how I dealt with feeling depressed, rather than just getting wrapped up in my own head.”

The Moondoggies are: Kevin Murphy, vocals, guitar; Carl Dahlen, drummer; Caleb Quick, keyboard; Robert Terreberry, bass.

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Hacienda’s High Octane Prowl, “Who’s [sic] Heart Are You Breaking”
Sugar Pie Desanto and Etta James’ Subterranean Shakedown, “In The Basement (Part 1 & 2)”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Lost and Found: Ron Davies, “It Ain’t Easy”

2010-09-26T20:15:00.003-04:00

Originally written, recorded and ushered in by little-known Music City Troubadour Ron Davies, later covered by UK rocker pups, Three Dog Night and the celebrated Thin White Duke, David Bowie –Davies’ take on “It Ain’t Easy” is a long neglected, one of a kind classic.

Ron Davies’ debut long player Silent Song Through The Land—recorded in 1970, after Davies was signed by A&M Records at age twenty—is made up of nine blue-ribbon cuts – each one original and full spirited. First single and lead-off track, “It Ain’t Easy” is easily given highest rank amongst the doctors and nursemaids here at the asylum- a cut aided on the 88s by Leon Russell, Davies’ voice quivers with the gentle ache of an evangelist, while the rolling thunder refrain rumbles with rejoice, taking wing: “It ain't easy, it ain't easy / It ain't easy to get to heaven / When youre going down,”

Ron Davies, acoustic guitar/vocals; Leon Russell, piano; Mike Deasy, lead guitar; Chad Stuart, bass; Jim Keltner, Drums; Merry Clayton, Venetta Fields, Clydie King, background voices.

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Hacienda’s High Octane Prowl, “Who’s [sic] Heart Are You Breaking”
Sugar Pie Desanto and Etta James’ Subterranean Shakedown, “In The Basement (Part 1 & 2)”
Madcapped Romance: The Fling, “Wanderingfoot”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Soul Survivor: Mavis Staples, “Creep Along, Moses”

2010-09-23T22:15:00.007-04:00

A sinister guitar line lurks behind 71-year-old Mavis Staples’ spirited husky contralto, as the soul chanteuse sings in harmony during the thunder-infected refrain: “Creep along Moses Moses creep along / Creep Along Moses I Thank God,”

For her latest release, Gospel’s leading light, Mavis Staples has teamed up with Wilco frontman, Jeff Tweedy for her 13th solo album and Anti- records sophomore release, You Are Not Alone. Recorded at Wilco’s studio The Loft, You Are Not Alone is an evenhanded glorious collection of traditional numbers and covers: Pops Staples, Randy Newman, Allen Toussaint, John Fogerty, Reverend Gary Davis and Little Milton. Plus, a pair of tracks penned by the album’s producer Jeff Tweedy, “You Are Not Alone” and “Only The Lord Knows.”

“Creep Along, Moses” is the go to cut for many of the doctors and nursemaids here at the asylum. A rolling, triumphant take on a Traditional that Mavis learned from her father, the Patriarch of the Staples Singers, Pops. The vocals are heavenly and the short grumpy guitar bursts shine.

Mavis Staples, vocals; Rick Holmstrom, guitar, vocals; Jeff Turmes, bass, vocals; Stephen Hodges, drums; Kelly Hogan, Nora O’Connor, Donny Gerrard, background vocals.

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Sugar Pie Desanto and Etta James’ Subterranean Shakedown, “In The Basement (Part 1 & 2)”
Madcapped Romance: The Fling, “Wanderingfoot”
Torched Teardrops: Elmore James and His Broom Dusters, “The Sky is Crying”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Get To Know Bo Diddley’s Amplified Heat Wave, “I Can Tell”

2010-09-20T23:15:00.004-04:00

A minor hit for the rock ‘n roll swashbucklers Johnny & the Pirates, resuscitated by UK punk trailblazers Dr. Feelgood. But neither could match the signature two-bit, freight train beat of Bo Diddley – Rock’s mad scientist and founding father’s take on “I Can Tell.”

Recorded on June 27, 1962, the “You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover” B-Side is musical hypnosis at its finest: Diddley dispatches rumbling vocals, coupled with veiled heartache and the backing deploys trancelike riptide-ridden rhythms. Focus on the inextinguishable blend of hypnotizing tremolo and bottom that seeks like a frayed-wired sidewinder. A true force of nature.

(Bo Diddley, vocals, guitar; Jerome Green, maracas; Jesse James Johnson, bass; Billy Downing; drums).

“I Can Tell”
Written by: Ellas McDaniel and Samuel Bernard Smith

I can tell because it's plain to see
I can tell the way you look at me
The way you know, you hold my hand
Yes, pretty baby I can understand
I can tell, I can tell
I know you don't love me no more

No more, no more
No more, a-no more
I can tell, I can tell
I know you don't love me no more

I asked your mama and your papa, too
What more can a poor man do?
Now, you been runnin' with a heart-breaker child, around
Yes, a new boy's why you put me down
I can tell, I can tell
I know you don't love me no more

(Instrumental)

Well, you won't answer your telephone
When I knock on your door
They say that you ain't home
Your sister let me in
And tell me I can wait
When you come home

You show up real late

Now, I can tell
Oh, I can tell
I know you don't love me no more

No more
I said, no more
No more
No more

Baby, I can give you romance
Only if you give me another chance
I'll cook your food and wash your clothes
I promise I'll keep your warm when it get cold

I can tell
I can tell
I know you don't love me no more

No more

FADES-

No more

A-no more.

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Hacienda’s High Octane Prowl, “Who’s [sic] Heart Are You Breaking”
Sugar Pie Desanto and Etta James’ Subterranean Shakedown, “In The Basement (Part 1 & 2)”
Madcapped Romance: The Fling, “Wanderingfoot”
Torched Teardrops: Elmore James and His Broom Dusters, “The Sky is Crying”
Midnight Creeping with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, “U.S. 41”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Hacienda’s High Octane Prowl, “Who’s [sic] Heart Are You Breaking”

2010-09-14T22:15:00.002-04:00

With the help of the Akron hoodoo man, Dan Auerbach, the boys from the Alamo City have done it again. Hacienda has managed to serve up a seductive stockpile of South Texas Soul on their Sophomore full-length, Big Red and Barbacoa.

After gigging with Dr. Dog, Alberta Cross, Heartless Bastards, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears; opening for Dan Auerbach on his Keep It Hid tour and serving as his backing band, Fast Five; the band salvaged two separate weekends to record the Alive Records, Big Red and Barbacoa at Auerbach’s Akron Analog Studio in Ohio.

Of the twelve cuts, the song we keep coming back to is the barnstorming racket and Herculean strut of lead-off track, “Who’s [sic] Heart Are You Breaking.” The quartet is backed by a surging firestorm - an unshakable, shiver-inducing, goose bump-ridden riff, suitable only for after hours consumption, while Rene Villanueva carves through and unfolds a bellyful of soul-squeezed and echo-laden lines, “How did this noon day get so dark / Whose heart are you breaking now.” This is electrifying rock ‘n roll rubbed raw. Not many neo-retro outfits can pull off a quick-draw high noon showdown with the ghosts of Rock’s past and triumph. Hacienda does that, and pulls it off with the swagger of a Molotov cocktail.

Hacienda’s Big Red and Barbacoa is out now on Alive Records

Hacienda are:
Dante Schwebel (guitar/vocals)
Abraham Villanueva (piano/organ/vocals)
Jamie Villanueva (drums/vocals)
Rene Villanueva (bass/vocals)

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Sugar Pie Desanto and Etta James’ Subterranean Shakedown, “In The Basement (Part 1 & 2)”
Madcapped Romance: The Fling, “Wanderingfoot”
Torched Teardrops: Elmore James and His Broom Dusters, “The Sky is Crying”
Midnight Creeping with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, “U.S. 41”
Slim Harpo’s Southern-Fried March, “Folsom Prison Blues”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”

Sugar Pie Desanto and Etta James’ Subterranean Shakedown, “In The Basement (Part 1 & 2)”

2010-09-12T22:15:00.006-04:00

Patients, today we have a ferocious pair of long lost knockout tracks from the double- dealing Chess-mates, pint-sized diva Sugar Pie Desanto and Her Majesty of the Blues, Etta James. Two muscular ditties that have shades of nasty, back-alley grit, Chicago blues fire and pistol-whipped funk.

Of the three tag-team duets that cousins Sugar Pie and Etta cut together for Chess, the impromptu “In The Basement (Part 1 & 2)” seven-inch is the preferred single of the doctors and nursemaids here at the asylum. Released in 1966, side one Part One is a ripping supercharged soul feast of all-night stomp – a sweat soaked surging bullet of razor sharp grooves. Sugar Pie and Etta go line for line, toe-to-toe: “Ohh, now tell me where can you party, child, all night long? / In the basement, down in the basement, yeah,” Part Two doesn’t quite pack the punch of the flip-side, but possesses the same get down spirit as Part One.

“In The Basement (Part 1)”
Written by: Sugar Pie Desanto and Etta James

Ohh, now tell me where can you party, child, all night long?
In the basement, down in the basement, yeah.
Oh where can you go when your money gets low?
In the basement, whoa down in the basement
And if a storm is taking place, you can jam and still be safe
In the basement, down in the basement, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Where can you dance to any music you choose?
In the basement, whoa down in the basement
Oh, you got the comforts of home, a nightclub too.
In the basement, whoa down in the basement.
There’s no cover charge or fee and the food and drinks are free,
In the basement, down in the basement

Come on child, you can do it, you can do it, yeah

In the basement, that’s where it’s at (4x)
In the basement, in the basement, in the basement
that’s where its at

(You tell ‘em)
Where they don’t, where they don’t check you age at the door,
In the basement, whoa down in the basement
Barracuda and [?] ‘til your feet get sore
In the basement, whoa down in the basement
Do any dance you want to do, there’s no one under you
In the basement, I know it, you tell ‘em oh-h-h-h I wanna go

In the basement, that’s where it’s at (4x)

Take Up Thy Rock 'N Roll Stethoscope and Walk,

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Madcapped Romance: The Fling, “Wanderingfoot”

2010-09-08T22:15:00.004-04:00

Long Beach, California is swiftly becoming a musical mecca – a rampant breeding ground for tomorrow’s indie-darlings: Dawes, Avi Buffalo, Delta Spirit, The Growlers, Deep See Diver. Now patients, we know it’s no small honor to be considered one of the best up-and-coming bands coming out of the LBC, but we think we have a legitimate candidate after listening to The Fling’s stellar maiden voyage, When The Madhouses Appear.

Produced by The Fling and recorded by Matt Wignall, When The Madhouses Appear is simply a fine debut album - a showcase in musical honesty that manages to recall the sound of the old guard, but coax the panoramic soundscapes into being their own. The doctors and nursemaids are diggin’ the cuts, “Strangers,” “Elinor,” “Out Of My Head,” “Dry The Rain” and “Cold Comfort,” but our rock ‘n roll stethoscopes are hooked on the 70s-tinged, AM-dial psychic sting of lead single, “Wanderingfoot.” A track that features refreshing melodies that ring bright, soaring lap steel and lyrics of lovesick retreat: “Find a place to hide / away from you,”

The Fling are:
Dustin Lovelis – guitar, vocals
Graham Lovelis – bass, vocals
Justin Ivey – drums
Justin Roeland – guitar, keys, vocals

When The Madhouses Appear is available on iTunes, Amazon and through their Band Camp

Take Up Thy Rock 'N Roll Stethoscope and Walk,

Enjoy this single cc of The Fling
The Fling - Wanderingfoot by doctormooney

MP3: The Fling – “Wandering Foot”

MORE PRESCRIPTIONS
Torched Teardrops: Elmore James and His Broom Dusters, “The Sky is Crying”
Midnight Creeping with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, “U.S. 41”
Slim Harpo’s Southern-Fried March, “Folsom Prison Blues”
Locomotive Boogie: Justin Townes Earle, “Harlem River Blues”
Chuck Berry’s Motorvatin’ Pursuit of “Nadine”

FROM THE ASYLUM VAULTS: PATIENT FAVES
The Black Keys Slay Peel Session at Old Corn Exchange
Bob Dylan Plugs In; Folkies Howl in Disgust for “Maggie’s Farm” – 45th Anniversary Edition
‘Get Back’: The Beatles As Nature Intended
Locked and Loaded: The Dead Weather, "A Child of a Few Hours is Burning To Death"
Tame Impala’s Deep Space Trip: “Solitude Is Bliss”