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Albums of the Week

  • 01. The Pierced Arrows: Straight to the Heart
  • 02. Various Artists: Back to Mono: The Phil Spector Story
  • 03. Flipper: Live Target Video 1982
  • 04. The Kinks: Something Else
  • 05. Various Artists: The Streets of Dakar
  • 06. Exene Cervenka Live at Hickman High School...in real time.
  • 07. X: Wild Gift
  • 08. The Rolling Stones: Assorted Rare 45s
  • 09. Various Artists: Nigeria Special
  • 10. Random briliance by saxophonist James Carter
  • 11. The Kinks: The Best of the Kinks
  • 12. Moongarm and Norsefire Live at Ragtag Cinemacafe--real time
  • 13. Various Artists: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
  • 14. Various Artists: Thunder Before Dawn--The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Volume II
  • 15. Various Artists: The Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara

GoodReads

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Jerry Lee...back from the dead...AGAIN!

Jerry Lee Lewis: The Palomino Recordings
The improbable excellence of The Killer's new release, Last Man Standing (in which he kicks ass on Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll," roars spendidly with fellow old-timers B. B. King, George Jones, and Merle Haggard, and generally rises from the dead for about the 4th time in his career, has sent me back to other great moments in his never-safe career. This 2-cd set was recorded live at one of California's rowdiest honky tonks, and, despite being saddled with an electric piano, the man TAMES it with indomitable versions of "Meat Man" ("I got jaws like a bear trap/Teeth like a razor/A Maytag tongue with a sensitive taster....), "Big-Legged Woman" ("I bet my bottom dollar/There ain't a cherry in this house..."), and "Don't Put No Headstone on My Grave" ("I want a fucking monument!!!"). Plus, the inventor of swamp guitar and the teeth in Ricky Nelson's Hollywood rockabilly attack, James Burton, is in nasty support.

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