Blues breakers…
The Tucson, AZ team of Charles Pitts/voc, Jeff Daniels/b, Richard Rivera/g, Bill Greenberg/g and Kid Dynamite/g bring in some guess for some road kill rockers on their fifth album. The team shows how to boogie on the fun “What I Should” and gets swampy on “Jekyll and Hyde Woman”, with some nice shuffling work by Daniels. There’s some nice dark slide work along with guitar guest Billy Yates on “Soul To Save” and Mike Blommer brings his ax into play on the Foghat-ish “Come On Down”, and Mark Holladay adds some keyboard concepts to the slowly undulating rocker “Junkie”. Straight up with no chaser.
Consisting of Jay Gordon/g, Sharon Butcher/b-voc, Dwane Hathorn/dr, Harlan Spector/B3-p, and Mario Ramirez/harm Blues Venom rocks hard through a collection of 50s-70s bluesers and bruisers. Gordon’s guitar snarls along with his voice on “Hootchie Cootchie Man” and set fire to a read of “Crossroads”. A tribute to CCR stomps out “Green River/Suzie Q” and the rhythm team gets frenetic on “Train Train”. Who set the metronome?!?