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JJ 5001LP
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Juke Joint 500 is a brand-new label launched by Stag-O-Lee head honcho Reinhard Holstein dedicated to vinyl issues of classic releases from the CD age. Originally released in 1995 as mailorder-only CD on Glitterhouse Records, And Other Crimes is a fan favorite. Recorded in two days live at Coyote Records and produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, the Philly four-piece Go To Blazes played a few of their own songs as well as tunes by Gordon Lightfoot, Kinky Friedman, Lou Reed, Lee Hazlewood, Gene Clark, Cary Hudson, Hank Williams, and others. All in a semi-acoustic mode. Color vinyl.
"After years of hard rocking, the band finally unplugged in 1995 with And Other Crimes, for the German Glitterhouse label. This live-in-the studio date is filled with smarter-than-bar-band covers, each one given a half-reverent, half-sneering spin. And if rollicking, slide-guitar-tinged treatments of Gene Clark's 'Out on the Side' or Kinky Friedman's 'Sold American' aren't twisted enough, check the downwardly mobile originals 'Got It Made' and 'Waste of Time' to hear just how closely the band's sense of rebellion mirrors that of anti-heroes Hank Williams Jr. and Lee Hazlewood." --Tom Moon (Rolling Stone/New York Times)
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