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Top 5 for Harvey (The Swing Cats; Nancy Sinatra) get CHARLIE KEATING BAND if Charlie Keating and his band can't do a little together to record an album? You get the new SLIDE ON OVER testifying for you. Good stuff! [D.S.] October 2011 supergroup calling themselves Headcat and their 13-SONG CD Contact--www.charliekeatingband.com debut album Walk The Walk... Talk The Talk on (In NO Particular Order) the Niji Entertainment label. With heading • ELMO'S BOOGIE up the lead vocals from track to track, you might • BOOGIE WOOGIE GS PICARD • Sena Ehrhardt Band expect to hear some raucous hard edged rock • YOU DON'T HAVE TO CRY THE GRAY and roll, but that's not what Headcat delivers. • SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER 11-SONG CD • Charlie Keating Band Instead, Lemmy, Slim Jim and Danny B. have • EVERY DAY I HAVE THE BLUES • The Bagboys gone back to the early days of rock & roll and • WHO DO YOU LOVE? • THE GRAY resurrected a collection of familiar covers from • GOODBYE BABY • WAYWARD SOULS • New West Guitar Group diverse artists such as Mel Tillis, , • PLEASE COME HOME • BEST ONE YET • GS Picard Frederick Heath (aka Johnny Kidd), John Lennon • ROLLIN' & TUMBLIN' • SAY A LITTLE MORE ______& Paul McCartney, Robert Johnson, Johnny • COME BACK • ONE OR NOT Meeks (lead guitarist for ), Larry • DOG BISCUIT • BROKE DOWN HEADCAT Williams, Chuck Berry, Rose McCoy & Charlie • ERIC'S BOOGIE • IT RAINS WALK THE WALK... TALK THE TALK Singleton and Jack Clement along with two • SLIDE ON OVER • THE BIG MACHINE 12-SONG CD Headcat originals. Of course the energy meter • SIGN AFTER SIGN is pinned on eleven throughout the proceedings Singer-songwriter-slide guitarist Charlie • THE WINTER CHILL • AMERICAN BEAT but this is an unusual outing for Lemmy in Keating and his trio, Lindsay "Lenny" Turnquist • BLOOD IN MY EYES (Bonus Track) • SAY MAMA particular. Slim Jim is used to rockin' his roots as on bass and Domenic Micarelli on drums tear it • I AIN'T NEVER is Danny B, but Kilmister has become famous up on their new album, Slide On Over. Whether Gayle Picard has been a force on the acoustic • SHAKIN' ALL OVER for his reckless rantings and bombastic bass Keating is putting his distinctive touch on a cover singer-songwriter scene since the mid to late • LET IT ROCK playing in his band Motorhead, so it's surprising song by folks like Elmore James, Memphis Slim, 1990s. On her third full length release, The Gray, • SOMETHING ELSE to see him covering songs by pioneers. and Muddy Waters or kicking out one Picard teams up with a handful of talented • THE EAGLE FLIES ON FRIDAY And while the music is well played, Lemmy's of his nine well penned originals, Keating and western MA. musicians: singer Donna Russo, • TRYING TO GET TO YOU vocals aren't as well suited for the genre. They're company keep the intensity turned all the way guitarist Dave Gaudet, multi-instrumentalist Marc • YOU CAN'T DO THAT gravelly, scratchy and soulless and fail to hit the up. A master at jump, swing and slide blues, Feldman, drummer Rosalba Gallo, producer/ • IT'LL BE MINE mark that was once intended by the original Keating has the chops and musical ideas to keep engineer/guitarist Jeff Root, harmonica player • CROSSROADS singers and players. I wanted to like this album, up with the best. Check out the uptempo burn of Mark Schruth and pianist-singer Elizabeth Lorrey I really did, but after a couple of spins, I'll just "Elmo's Boogie," the steamy swagger of "You to produce an album full of lush imagery and fine What do you get when singer/ Lemmy have to go back to my record collection and dig Don't Have To Cry," the jumpin' jive of "Please playing. Picard's words comes from her heart so Kilmister (Motorhead), drummer Slim Jim the originals one more time. [B.M.O.] Com Home," the high steppin' "Come Back," and there's no denying her feelings run deep from Phantom () and guitarist Danny B. Contact--www.theheadcat.com the acoustic barnburner "Slide On Over" and see song to song. She absorbs the human condition

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