Artist:
Left Lane Cruiser & James Leg
Albums: Painkillers
Released: 2012
Quality: mp3
CBR 320
Size: 83 MB
”In
case you wondered whatever became of the tradition of the blues jam, it was
alive and kicking for a few days in Detroit when raw and rootsy guitar-and-drum
duo Left Lane Cruiser headed into a recording studio with James Leg, the
keyboard player and vocal howler from the Black Diamond Heavies, to lay down a
set of high-octane cover tunes. Producer Jim Diamond sat in on bass and
Harmonica Shah stopped by to blow some harp, and the result is Painkillers, a
loud and rowdy collection of bluesy wailing for the 21st century. Like plenty
of bands on the punk-blues axis, both Left Lane Cruiser and James Leg approach
their music with the ferocity of a starving dog that's been tossed a bloody
steak, and if you're looking for anything approaching subtlety, Painkillers is
not for you. But the musicians on this date all seem to be on the same page --
they want to get loud and boogie like they're expecting to be taken to jail in
the morning, and for a makeshift band, these performances are surprisingly
tight and emphatic. Leg's trademark "Tom Waits with a sore throat"
growl is as over-the top as it's always been, but in this context, it suits the
material just fine, and his swirling organ and thickly distorted electric piano
are rich and satisfying, while the manic slide guitar of Frederick "Joe"
Evans IV and hard-stomping drumming of Brenn Beck are as greasy as a good
burger and just as tasty. Diamond's rock-solid bass work and full-bodied
engineering is just the right icing on this particular cake, as are the primal
harp blasts from Harmonica Shah, and if the set list -- a list of blues and
blues-rock standards ranging from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker to the
Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin -- isn't especially imaginative, these guys
attack like the best sort of bar band, and the version of Bob Seger's
"Come to Poppa" suggests they were embracing the Detroit experience
to the fullest. Painkillers suggests an overdriven, punk-infused variation on
Canned Heat's old formula, and if they're never going to get to cut an album
with John Lee Hooker, at least they have the good sense to see that their
boogie isn't endless, and for 35 minutes, this is a house party worth a visit.”
~ Mark Deming at allmusic.com
Tracklist:
- Sad Days Lonely Nights /Junior Kimbrough/ 3:18
- She's Gone /Hound Dog Taylor/ 3:12
- Come to Poppa /Willie Mitchell / Earl Randle/ 3:50
- Shake It /John Lee Hooker / 2:55
- If 6 Was 9 /Jimi Hendrix/ 3:47
- Red Rooster /Willie Dixon/ 5:20
- Ramblin' on My Mind /Robert Johnson/ 2:55
- Chevrolet /Left Lane Cruiser / James Leg/ 2:33
- When the Levee Breaks /John Bonham / John Paul Jones / Memphis Minnie / Jimmy Page / Robert Plant/ 4:24
- Sway /Mick Jagger / Keith Richards/ 3:22
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