The title of the Alabama duoโs debut, The Essential Fucked Up Blues, usefully summarises the contents of this, their second album. It begins with a song called โRobert Johnsonโ, and the words โWoke up this morningโ bawled by singer Chetley โEl Cheetahโ Weise as if the proverbial hellhounds are ripping him to shreds.
The effect is quite invigorating, like a remedial Pussy Galore, though the Killers come a cropper when their take on the blues becomes less iconoclastic. Theyโd be good live, one suspects.
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