HEAVY NUGGETS VOL. 7
BOOGIE CHILDREN
ZZ TOP LIT TLE FEAT CANNED HEAT R.L. BURNSIDE STEPHEN MALKMUS JOHN LEE HOOKER & MORE
Ben Stas/Noise Floor, Carlos Puma, Philip Morris, Tom Hill/Getty, Courtesy The Grape Organisation, David Raccuglia, Getty (2), Tyler Green, Alamy, J. Winterberg, Laura Merrill, Keith Morris/Getty
1 THE BELLRAYS HIGHWAY TO HELL
At the start, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was actually AC/DC. Soon enough, though, The BellRays reveal themselves, thanks to singer Lisa Kekaula sounding as much like Betty Davis as she does Bon Scott. The California band have been cranking out MC5-ish garage rock for over 30 years: this spectacular version of the Bon-era swan song comes from their 2016 Covers EP.
Written by Young, Scott, Young. &©2016 The BellRays. From the EP Covers. Currently available on all digital services
2 LOBBY LOYDE ROCK AND ROLL SUNSET
Long before AC/DC even existed, Lobby Loyde was already a master of no-bullshit Australian boogie, playing guitar in key bands like The Aztecs and Coloured Balls (later, he would join another Oz-rock institution, Rose Tattoo). Rock And Roll Sunset is taken from Loyde’s 1976 solo debut,
Obsecration,
his scything guitar lines mixing it with pounding barrelhouse piano.
Written by Lobby Lorde Aztec Music Publishing. 1975. Licensed by Aztec Music Pty. Ltd. ©2008
3 ZZ TOP PRECIOUS AND GRACE
To Texas now, and the
Tres Hombres.
That 1973 album – ZZ Top’s third and their commercial breakthrough – was so marinated in boogie that its lead single, La Grange, was built out of John Lee Hooker’s canonical Boogie Chillen’. Here, though, is the precision throb of Precious And Grace (adeptly covered by Queens Of The Stone Age in 2005).