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Front Street Rebels
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Price: $15.00
Artist:
The Doughboys
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Their fifth studio album, Front Street Rebels, features twelve brilliant new tracks from the band whose career spans pretty much all the decades rock ’n’ roll has been in existence. They returned to the House of Vibes to work again with producer/engineer Kurt Reil, and the results are scintillating. Masterful songwriting, playing and production mark this as Myke, Gar, Richie and Mike’s crowning achievement – highly original rockin’ tracks which remain true to their garage/blues/rock roots. Fervent fans know the whole history – they first got together in ‘64 and played in various permutations through the rest of the 60’s. They gigged incessantly, won a battle-of-the-bands on Zacherle’s Disc-o-Teen TV show, were the house band at the legendary Café Wha? in New York City in the summer of ’68, opened for every act imaginable including The Beach Boys, and released two 45’s, “Rhoda Mendelbaum” and “Everybody Knows My Name”, on Bell Records before splitting up for what they thought was for good. The band members went their separate and interesting ways – Myke Scavone fronted hard rock ensemble Ram Jam who scored an international hit with Black Betty; Richie Heyman played drums for the likes of Link Wray, Brian Wilson and Jonathan Richman while simultaneously pursuing an acclaimed career as a singer/songwriter (under his full moniker Richard X. Heyman); Mike Caruso landed session work with such notable pop producers as Bo Gentry and Kenny Laguna, and even jammed with Jimi Hendrix! In 2005, Gar Francis (of Stones tribute band Sticky Fingers fame, as well as work with Billy Idol and Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and The Raiders) entered the picture after the untimely passing of founding member and brilliant guitarist Willy Kirchofer. When Gar joined the band, they branched out into recording their own original material, and it wasn’t long before they entered the recording studio and laid down tracks for “Is It Now?”, the first album of their long and storied career. Well, seventeen years have gone by but The Doughboys haven’t slowed down one iota! Front Street was where it was all happening in their hometown of Plainfield, New Jersey “back in the day”. The Doughboys are the “Front Street Rebels” pounding out blistering new rock’n’roll tracks that will stay with you always. As today is the first day of the rest of your life, now’s the time to be a little rebellious yourself and tune in to _Front Street Rebels by the inimitable Doughboys. "Swollen with rough and tough rockers rooted in the blues, The Doughboys approach their tautly-written songs with a here and now presence." - Beverly Paterson/SomethingElseReviews.com "Is it possible to still have ‘attitude’ in rock ‘n’ roll? You bet your ass it is. If you’ve ever doubted it (like we all have over the years), just listen. This is vintage, in-your-face, gorgeously raw rock ’n’ roll from front to back…this is old school rock at its best – bluesy, stripped down, Stones-y rock…Suffice it to say, if you want to hear what real rock ’n’ roll was always supposed to sound like, check your faith will be renewed." - Elmore Magazine “The songs are so vital and energetic…you have to love the rapid fire machine gun blast of Richie Heyman’s drums, the blazing hot guitar work of Gar Francis, Mike Caruso’s work on bass and the way Myke Scavone’s vocal calisthenics are perfectly suited to this material." – Richard Rossi/PowerPopNews.com GREAT!!
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