{"id":524,"date":"2011-06-01T05:03:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2011-06-01T05:03:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T10:03:52","slug":"album-review-keb-darge-little-edith-present-legendary-wild-rockers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/01\/album-review-keb-darge-little-edith-present-legendary-wild-rockers\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Keb Darge & Little Edith Present Legendary Wild Rockers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keb Darge<\/strong><\/a> is someone you can count on to unearth some interesting music. He rifles through dusty stacks of records so you don\u2019t have to. He\u2019s brought his archivist\u2019s sensibility to a dizzying list of compilations. Darge has put together many collections of deep funk, northern soul and more. At this point he does believe that both of those genres have pretty well been mined, so he\u2019s moved onto other regions. His Legendary Rockin\u2019 R&B<\/em> more or less marked the end of his exploration of those genres on record, but there\u2019s enough overlaps in the definitions of various musical genres and subgenres that the transition to his latest comp is a smooth one.<\/p>\n

Legendary Wild Rockers<\/em> delivers what its title promises. Think of it as sort of an obscurities companion to the Rhino box set Loud, Fast & Out of Control<\/em>. At twenty tracks, it\u2019s a bit short, but the quality of the material more than makes up for its brevity. Few listeners will recognize any<\/em> of the artists this go-round. Be honest: have you really heard of Mel Dorsey with Chuck Wayne and the Heart Beats<\/em>? No, I didn\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

Back in the days when these songs were cut, it was common practice to, shall we say, borrow<\/em> elements of other songs to create \u201cnew\u201d ones. How else to explain a track by the cumbersomely-monikered Brother Zee and the Decades with the Mike Metko Combo<\/strong>, a song called \u201cSha-boom Bang.\u201d It includes a curious little lyric that goes thusly: \u201cOom-papa mow mow, everybody\u2019s heard about the bird.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Yeah, no, really.<\/p>\n

The set\u2019s subtitle \u2013 gotta have a subtitle, right? \u2013 is \u201cA collection of rare rockabilly, surf and exotica.\u201d It delivers on those fronts, but the listener must bring an open mind. Tom-rolls and reverbed guitars do indeed often make a song surf-rock \u2013 witness \u201cI Want Some of That\u201d by Kai-Ray<\/strong> \u2013 but finding the exotica is a little iffier. When this listener thinks of exotica, he\u2019s looking for something toward the Martin Denny<\/strong> end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n

Well, the titles and lyrics of many of these songs are certainly, er, exotic. A sampling: \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Flyface.\u201d Another: \u201cThe Goo Goo Muck.\u201d That one sounds like Kim Fowley<\/strong> meets the 50s. But from start to finish, Legendary Wild Rockers<\/em> is a rocking good time, with nonstop nuttiness and a party atmosphere like no other. Here\u2019s hoping Keb Darge continues his search through those stacks of old vinyl.<\/p>\n

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