MP3 J.J. Vicars - Sci-Fi Diner
Guitarist J.J. Vicars tears outta the Diner like a rebuilt Chevy on his debut CD of hard drivin'' Blues,Boogie,and Rock''n''Roll.
13 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Rockin'' Blues, ROCK: Roots Rock
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Guitarist J.J. Vicars blasts through 13 tunes like a rebuilt Chevy with a 350 big block under the https://www.tradebit.com now-legendary Gibson Firebird plugged into his trusty Music Man amp fires off lethal shards of BluesRock on 8 songs that include Tailgators bassist J.J. Barrera and Texas drum legend Mike Buck before he navigates his pawn shop acoustic all by his lonesome through 5 numbers of primitive lowdown backporch boogie.
SCI-FI DINER kicks off with the swinging uptempo Freddie King number SEE SEE BABY,goes into the heavy chug of ROCK MY WORLD,and then kicks it up another notch with a burning rendition of Jerry Lee Lewis'' REAL WILD CHILD,a song also covered recently on Brian Setzer''s Sun Records https://www.tradebit.com''s BOOGIE blazes a trail through the Texas Guitar Boogie tradition started by Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lightnin'' Hopkins and carried on through Johnny Winter and https://www.tradebit.com CD kicks back into a cozy groove with a pair of funky shuffles,the laid back LEAVIN'' IN THE MORNIN'' and the rollicking DOWN ON MY LUCK. J.J. then shows off his Jazz/R&B leanings with the Bill Doggett/Jimmy Smith-inspired CROW''S FEET ''N'' CHICKEN https://www.tradebit.com signature song,the hard-driving TAKE ME ON DOWN TO MEMPHIS closes out the band portion of the CD with a bang;two and half minutes of pure,unadulterated turn-the-dump-over-and-go-home-with-the-waitress Rock''n''Roll.
The second half of the CD travels the backroads at https://www.tradebit.como acoustic,dripping with chicken grease and echoing the Country Blues of Texas and the https://www.tradebit.comL ME and BOOGIE WITH GRANNY are straight out of the Lightnin'' Hopkins school,while the John Lee Hooker-style GOTTA RIDE rolls out of https://www.tradebit.comYED IN TEXAS is an autobiographical song mining the East Texas songster tradition of Lightnin'' and Mance https://www.tradebit.comNISH FANDANGO closes out the CD,J.J.''s arrangement adding a blue flavor to this parlor piece from the 1800''s.
For his debut release he''s dipped into the music that he cut his teeth on-Lightnin'' Hopkins,Freddie King,Chuck Berry,The Tailgators,early T-birds,John Lee Hooker,Slim https://www.tradebit.comng digital technonlogy to come full circle to the early days of recording the entire CD was cut live in the studio with no overdubs,recorded and mixed in a single 10 hour https://www.tradebit.com in,get it down and get https://www.tradebit.come Buck (who also played on the first T-birds album) was heard to comment at the end of the sesion,"Now that''s the way records are supposed to be made!"