Doc Holliday - Doc Holliday
1981 Housekeeping LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
Doc Holliday
Doc Holliday
Genre: Southern Rock
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
A Good Woman is Hard to Find
Moonshine Runner
Requisite 80s Cover:
“Somebody Help Me”. You know what? I think this is just as good, if not even more desperate and assertive, as The Spencer David Group’s version
“I’m a Rocker”. Chuck Berry would have been perfectly fine with the double axe assault.
I’ve never heard of Doc Holliday. Have any of you? You must have because they reformed about 20 years ago and put out four more records after two in the 90s and four in the 80s. So, there’s gotta be some sort of fan base.
Dual guitar attack, nearly Lemmy growl, steady rhythm section, the first two tracks are perfectly fine examples of the genre and then someone else takes over the vox on “A Good Woman is Hard to Find” (I assume it’s co-writer, drummer Eddie Stone) and it’s smoother and more…fun to listen to, albeit pedestrian. Then it turns to East Coast Swing (“Round and Round”) and then the laser focused, locomotive “Moonshine Runner” and I am ready to turn the thing over and see what the Doc has in store for me on Side Two.
What they have a complete set of songs that are a run for the title of Southern Rock kings in a world where Molly Hatchett can go on world tours to support very middling records. There isn’t a sloucher on this platter. It’s all energy and dynamite.
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