lundi 9 août 2021

Dixie Fried





















ROCK'N'ROLL ALLSTARS - RED CHINA ROCK - LP B&C

A1 - Slipping And Sliding
A2 - Peggy Sue
A3 - Slow Down
A4 - Dixie Fried
A5 - Folsom Prison Blues
A6 - Blue Suede Shoes
A7 - Twenty Flight Rock
B1 - Long Tall Sally
B2 - Rip It Up
B3 - Bonie Moronie
B4 - Shakin' All Over
B5 - It Keeps Raining
B6 - One Hand Loose
B7 - My Girl Josephine

Vinyl rip.
 

5 commentaires:

Crab Devil a dit…

Thanks! Let me mention that, with reference to
rock 'n' roll revivalism, this may be the strangest
thing I've ever heard of. Just part of what makes it
mystifying is the inclusion, in 1972, of "One Hand
Loose." According to Discogs, the original Charlie
Feathers version was not reissued until 1973 (and
I don't think it could have become very well known
until at least a couple of years later). It seems
paradoxical, therefore, that these guys who were so
deliberately unoriginal could also be so far ahead
of their time.

Uncle Gil a dit…

@ Crab Devil

Yet the King 4997 with "One Hand Loose" has been in circulation since December 1956...

Crab Devil a dit…

Certainly. But my point is that in 1972, not to mention in England,
"One Hand Loose" would have been quite an obscurity. By contrast,
all of the other songs would have been very well known. (Indeed, it's
likely that they were chosen because they would be familiar even to
an audience in China.) To me, this is a situation in which a cover
band not only follows the rules (by recording an album's worth of
world-famous hits) but also breaks the rules (by including a song
that had barely even been a local hit).

la musica e vita a dit…

Uncle Gill, thank you. I owned this album back in the day, but I had forgotten about it.

". (Indeed, it's likely that they were chosen because they would be familiar even to
an audience in China.)" Wouldn't have go through customs into China - at the time the teenagers were being conscripted into the Red Guards and forced to torture and murder people.
This cover was a piss-take, pure and simple.

Aussie a dit…

thank you