If you guys aren’t yet aware of Nick Curran, I need you to sit up and listen to what I’m about to lay on ya.
Like so much of the newest / oldest / coolest stuff I hear these days, Nick Curran came to my attention via Little Steven’s Underground Garage. As soon as “Baby You Crazy” blasted through my speakers, I was hooked by the guitars, the horns, and the boogie-woogie piano, all of it distorted and all of it sounding like it was 100-percent lifted from 1950’s jump blues via the Cramps via the Ramones with T-Bone Walker sitting in for Johnny. If I didn’t know better, I’d have sworn the song was coming from some crusty half-century-old vinyl.“Baby You Crazy” – and for that matter, the entirety of Curran’s latest album, Reform School Girls – is just so ridiculously good I don’t even know where to start. It transcends boogie-woogie or rock-a-billy and becomes Little Richard reborn in the body of a 32-year-old white guitar player from Maine (I know Little Richard is still alive, but just stay with me on this). I downloaded Reform School Girls from eMusic and – seriously – this is the first time in I don’t know how long that I listened to a CD, played it again, then played it again. And it’s still in my CD player waiting for another spin.
Just listen to this.
Baby You Crazy.mp3
OH, YEAH! This was great!!!! I'm playing it again!
ReplyDeleteFu-huck yeah! Grabbed me by the you-know-whats when I first heard it too. You are not alone. This is the shit.
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