ROCKET TO MEMPHIS CD REVIEW

Rocket To Memphis - "Hip Shakin' Voodoo"
Raucous

Showing there’s power enough in many an old swamp to suck you down into come this quaking quartet from Perth, Australia. Pleasingly forgoing the apparently too easy to resist temptation of glib Stray Cats or Cramps going-overs or clattering through the already too cluttered closets of psychobilly while dressed in Lucky 13 clobber and sporting spider tattoos, Betty Bombhell and her rocketeers Death Rattle Dave, Razor Jack and Voodoo Viv tread an altogether more seductive path to lure you into their uncertain but marvelously murky depths of lizard slink. For starters they actually do creak out Creole mambas and tiki twirls, with Betty’s deceptively demure vocals and Jack’s crooked knee angular guitar suggestive of Marc Ribot’s work with Tom Waits on Rain Dogs helping them to stand out further by several strides, and when they both come to a head they increase the already impossibly sexy She's My Witch and No Kissin' At The Hop to near ridiculously chilling stakes of enticing wildness somewhere within. A sultry shimmery sway through fog-laden nights and sinister death-glam discos that stand as eerily inviting detours from the overflowing drive-ins of run of the mill rockabilly of little or no regard.
Stu Gibson (www.sleazegrinder.com)

BARGAIN TIME! More CD prices reduced.

Raucous Records has reduced the price of more CDs. Check out these popular titles at bargain prices...

Down to £7.50...
AL & THE BLACK CATS : "Fabulous Rockabilly Sounds" CD
AL & THE BLACK CATS : "Shakin' At The Knees" CD
- The first two great albums from one of the best live bands around.
FRANTIC FLINTSTONES : "Speed Kills" CD
- One of the best ever releases from Psychobilly scene favourites.
Various Artists : "GET RHYTHM - A TRIBUTE TO THE MAN IN BLACK" CD
- A Rockabilly tribute to Johnny Cash featuring Boz Boorer, Cat Scratch Fever, Union Avenue, Drugstore Cowboys and many others.

Down to £5.99...
THE SKIPRATS : "Let Your Hair Down Baby" CD
Traditional style stripped down Rockabilly trio - one of the very best bands in this style.
THE SLINGSHOTS : "Feels So Right" CD
Vintage style Rockabilly inspired by Carl Perkins, Pat Cupp, Sleepy LaBeef & other 50s greats.
WILDWIND : "Jump About & Boogie" CD
Talented trio mix together classic Rock'n'Roll, Rockabilly, Doo-Wop and a touch of Swing.

These are thousands more CDs available at www.raucousrecords.com

FRANK GANNON TRIO CD REVIEW

From Sleazegrinder:

UK Garage-blues surf crew with original slants and slicks on this set, written entirely by the main man (well, except Fever). With incisive guitar sears like Mick Green of The Pirates in a stand-off with Link Wray, toe-stubbing Duane Eddy / Dick Dale and Dimples dunks abound and the grit of The Sonics is right up square in your face these guys eschew the tired tricks that litter Rock’n’Roll’s backyards. They’ve been around many blocks (ex members of Clarksdale Bluebeats, Jesse James and the Outlaws and The Blueflames) and soldiered on through circuits unsoldered to time to chuck this fresh and energising real roll of rock in your breadbasket. No tired re-tarmacing of the same driveways as last week, showing that with that indefinable kaZing that transcends a pinch of talent, conventional staples can be transmuted into a rare sustaining treat. Essential.
Stu Gibson

JOHNNY STORM RETURNS

Those rockin' cats from the 80's keep coming back! JOHNNY STORM has returned fronting THE JOHNNY STORM BAND - playing old and new material, original songs and classic rockers.

Look out for the forthcoming CD "Rockin' Machine", which will of course be on sale at www.raucousrecords.com as well as at JOHNNY STORM gigs.

Here are the forthcoming live dates... More to be added soon:

May 24 2009 Rossington Welfare Club DONCASTER
May 30 2009 Crazy Kaiffari club TUUSULA (Finland)
Jun 13 2009 Rock'n'Roll Club CHESTERFIELD
Jun 26 2009 Martin’s Nest BRIGHOUSE
Jul 24 2009 Rock’n’Roll Club BOLTON
Sep 26 2009 The Fox THORPE WILLOUGHBY
Oct 10 2009 Irish Centre LEEDS
Oct 16 2009 Croft Rock'n'R club DARLINGTON
Nov 7 2009 Woodfield Club DONCASTER
Nov 21 2009 Easington Club EASINGTON COLLIERY
Dec 4 2009 The New Roscoe LEEDS

ROCKET TO MEMPHIS - Bad Girl

ROCKET TO MEMPHIS perform BAD GIRL with Mel and Michelle from SUGAR BLUE BURLESQUE! Shot at the VOODOO JAMBOREE in Feb 2009, a vaudeville event to launch their HIP SHAKIN' VOODOO CD.

Rockabilly Credit Crunch Special!

Raucous Records is reducing the price of some choice back catalogue selections. Here are the first ones to be discounted:

HICKSVILLE BOMBERS : THE HICKSVILLE BOMBERS CD - now £5.99 + p&p
25 tracks of real-gone Rockabilly from longtime rockin' scene favourites The Hicksville Bombers. This is their first album which helped to catapult them to popularity among the Rock'n'Roll fraternity.

THE RHYTHMAIRES : TENTH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM CD - now £5.99 + p&p
A great collection of early recordings from one of Britain's most respected rockin' bands of the 1980s & '90s. Featuring tracks from early singles and EPs, and lots of previously unreleased cuts too.

THE RICARDOS : WILD SATURDAY NIGHT ON EARTH CD - now £5.99 + p&p
The Ricardos' second album - packed with wild, raw, boppin' 1950s style Rockabilly. Recorded at Riverside Studio on vintage equipment to capture a perfectly authentic vintage sound.

SHOTGUN : SHOTGUN RIDES AGAIN CD - now £5.99 + p&p
One of the pioneering bands of the British Rockabilly boom - a 22 track collection of early and rare tracks from Shotgun's first 10 years (1978-1987) featuring many previously unreleased tracks.