The Blasters - American Music (1980) - VINYL - (Hightone re-issue) - 24-bit/96kHz plus CD-compatible format

Here's the first recordings by The Blasters. This pressing is a re-issue with 6 bonus tracks. A special place in my heart is reserved for "Crazy Baby" because an old girlfriend of mine who had those words tatoo-ed on her breast.

Here's the first recordings by The Blasters. This pressing is a re-issue with 6 bonus tracks. A special place in my heart is reserved for "Crazy Baby" because an old girlfriend of mine who had the words "Crazy Baby" tatoo-ed on her breast. Never mind her great ass. Come to think of it, maybe it isn't the tatoo I think of after all….


From allmusic:
Review by William Ruhlmann
Right from the beginning, with Dave Alvin's title song, the Blasters made their statement, that basic rock & roll was as contemporary in 1980 as it had been in the mid-'50s. The other 12 tracks, which mixed Dave and Phil Alvin originals with covers like "I Wish You Would" and "Never No More Blues," reiterated the opening remark, re-creating the feel of a biker bar after a couple of tall ones. Actually, the Blasters didn't have much to say beyond this record, of which only a couple of thousand copies were pressed, but they went on to a few years with Warner Bros. [In the late '90s, the debut was released on CD with six bonus tracks, all covers, and that statement seemed just as valid as it had at first.]

A curious first line here from Chistgau:
One of two bands cited as proof that L.A. punks aren't just bigots with mohawks (the other, the Go-Go's, has–gulp!–girls in it), these rock and rollers don't quite fit their rockabilly revivalist pigeonhole. Where the average Whitecat is so pencil-necked he can hardly hold up an acoustic bass, they have muscles, and where the average Rockin' Ronnie Weiser signing is a barely literate has-been who never really was, they have brains and potential. Or so songs like "Barn Burning" and, believe it or not, "American Music" lead one to believe. They do get that chickenshit Scotty Moore guitar sound right, though. With Ronnie at the boards, they don't have much choice. B+

Sounds disappointed that he likes them, huh? That's East Coast snobbery/stupidity for you. In spades.


01 - American Music.flac
02 - Real Rock Drive.flac
03 - Barefoot Rock.flac
04 - I Don't Want To.flac
05 - Marie Marie.flac
06 - I Wish You Would.flac
07 - She Ain't Got The Beat.flac
08 - Flat Top Joint.flac
09 - Crazy Baby.flac
10 - Never No More Blues.flac
11 - Buzz Buzz Buzz.flac
12 - She's Gone Away.flac
13 - Barn Burning.flac
14 - 21 Days In Jail.flac
15 - Love 24 Hours A Day.flac
16 - I Fell In Love.flac
17 - Cry For Me.flac
18 - I'm Glad.flac
19 - Ashamed Of Myself.flac
20 - Lone Wolf.flac



No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.