24042014 - Vintage Trouble "The Bomb Shelter Sessions"

Vintage Trouble. Love the name. It tells you all you need to know. Retro and old fashioned, yet dangerous and likely to kick you in the face - with their snakeskin boots and their RAWK! Because this is exactly the kind of band that didn't just read the rule book of rock and duplicated everything in it, ending up having no soul or originality; these guys are rock'n'roll because they have to! This album is the antithesis to yesterday's also-rans, and you know why? They have the SONGS, the FEELS, the HEART AND SOUL! Oh, did I mention that they also have the GROOVE? Well, they do. And they have a song called "Nancy Lee" and another called "Jezzebella", and both are grrrrrrrrrreat! Seriously though, do you know the real reason why they win? Because nothing sounds contrived, because they sound both down to earth and larger than life at the same time, but most of all because you just want to play this album over and over and over again all day and all of the night!