Time: 48:19
Size: 110.6 MB
Styles: Rockabilly, Rockin blues
Year: 1992/2010
Art: Front
[1:59] 1. That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch
[2:19] 2. I'll Go Crazy
[2:14] 3. Person To Person
[2:10] 4. I'm Walkin'
[2:04] 5. It Isn't Right
[3:21] 6. Cajun Love Affair
[2:35] 7. Trace Of You
[2:57] 8. Crazy Mixed Up World
[2:55] 9. Ride 'n' Roll
[3:02] 10. Babe's Comin' Home
[3:29] 11. Mother Earth
[2:13] 12. I'll Try
[3:16] 13. Hoochie Coochie Man
[2:13] 14. Come On Back
[3:06] 15. Wang Dang Doodle
[2:08] 16. Breathless
[0:51] 17. Blue Rhythm Boogie
[2:23] 18. Go Ahead On
[2:54] 19. Catfish
Wild records has the good idea to reissue this now hard to find jewel, first released in 1992 on Ace/Big Beat.
"At Last", seldom an album had a so perfectly suited title. This 19 songs album (15 on the 10" vinyl) fulfilled a wait of almost 10 years. Recorded live in one hectic 10 hour session it finally shows the Rhythms' on a long distance and it was worth the wait.
The line-up has changed a bit since the EP. Ashley Kingman (Red Hot'n'Blue, Rockin' Rocket 88 and now Big Sandy And His Fly Rite Boys) has joined Ansell and Carlisle on second guitar while Matt Jackson (a gifted guitarist too) is on drums and Nick Gillroy on bass. They take advantage of this fuller line-up to delve into a more rhythm and blues/Chicago blues repertoire with songs by Willie Dixon, Fats Domino, Howlin Wolf, James Brown, Memphis Slim and Little Walter. They are often close to the originals (Hoochie Coochie Man, Wand Dang Doodle) while sometimes they play them in a rockin' blues way (“The Stuff You Gotta Watch”). Conway Twitty's I'll Try is turned into a blues with pumping piano and soulful vocal from Ansell and a scorching guitar solo that make this song one of my favorite (if you're interested). The frantic covers of Tommy Cassell's Go Ahead On and Jerry Lee's Breathless are here to remember us they started as a rockabilly band as do Ansell's own "Come On Back" with another wild solo from Jim Carlisle (what a guitarist!). Another fave of mine is Cajun Love Affair with harp and some lyrics in French to add the Louisiana flavor. If you like good rockin' blues with a touch of rockabilly and soul here and there, put your hand on this one. All killer, no filler ! ~Fred "Virgil" Turgis
"At Last", seldom an album had a so perfectly suited title. This 19 songs album (15 on the 10" vinyl) fulfilled a wait of almost 10 years. Recorded live in one hectic 10 hour session it finally shows the Rhythms' on a long distance and it was worth the wait.
The line-up has changed a bit since the EP. Ashley Kingman (Red Hot'n'Blue, Rockin' Rocket 88 and now Big Sandy And His Fly Rite Boys) has joined Ansell and Carlisle on second guitar while Matt Jackson (a gifted guitarist too) is on drums and Nick Gillroy on bass. They take advantage of this fuller line-up to delve into a more rhythm and blues/Chicago blues repertoire with songs by Willie Dixon, Fats Domino, Howlin Wolf, James Brown, Memphis Slim and Little Walter. They are often close to the originals (Hoochie Coochie Man, Wand Dang Doodle) while sometimes they play them in a rockin' blues way (“The Stuff You Gotta Watch”). Conway Twitty's I'll Try is turned into a blues with pumping piano and soulful vocal from Ansell and a scorching guitar solo that make this song one of my favorite (if you're interested). The frantic covers of Tommy Cassell's Go Ahead On and Jerry Lee's Breathless are here to remember us they started as a rockabilly band as do Ansell's own "Come On Back" with another wild solo from Jim Carlisle (what a guitarist!). Another fave of mine is Cajun Love Affair with harp and some lyrics in French to add the Louisiana flavor. If you like good rockin' blues with a touch of rockabilly and soul here and there, put your hand on this one. All killer, no filler ! ~Fred "Virgil" Turgis
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