#526/1157
1985 Housekeeping
Jerry Jerry & the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra
Road Gore: The Band That Drank Too Much
Genre: Rockabilly Retro
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Gospel Surfer
Baby’s On Fire
Usually we don’t go back into previous years to review stuff we missed. We’re like a freight train at The Listening Post. 500 records a year will do that to you.
But this one came to our attention before we started posting the new year’s reviews so, it juuuuuuust made the cut.
This is one of those records that, had I had an extra $1.00 on me while hanging around Sounds in the Village I might’ve plunked it down and taken this home for a spin. Oh, who’m I kidding? I’d’ve looked at that cover and figured it was a throwback to the early days of Rock N Roll and probably passed and waited until my roommate (the discoverer of Chet Bolin and Montevideo) brought it to the dorm. Unless it was the Uncle Sam cover and then I would’ve judged it as an incongruous melding of punk and retro-swing.
It kind of is that.
And we would probably have played it, liked it, smiled, and then gave it away at the one and only Yeast Infection concerts, having scribbled the name of our band on it with masking tape.
Cuz we did that.
This record starts off like a promising precursor to Psychobilly and then just wheedles itself into pedestrian nostalgia rock.
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