Workdogs

Old (cd)

• Stimulant • Painting the Davil's Office Again • Back in the Days • Brave New Blues • Robert Kennedy Blues • The Facts of Life • Back on the Night of May 27, 1977 • Too Young to Die • Little Joe •

Old guitars: Marce Hall, Jon Spencer, Ted Horowitz, Jerry Teel tenor sax: Kurt Hoffman trumpet: Pam Fleming bariton sax: Adam Kolker organ, piano: Maicolm Riviera accordion: Andrea Parkins harmonica: Flitz Fox mandolin: Fran Powers backing vocals: Shannah Ehrhart, Leila Haddad

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Sympathy For The Record Industry.

Whatever grand traditions the blues Explosion harken back to, Rob Kennedy and Scott Jarvis are their greatest living practitioners. Now, the Workdogs can play their way out of all the last remaining paper bags in America, leaving a legend on a state of the Grand Canyon, the Mississippi, and the Panama Canal. Just because the duo's adventures in music haven't pointed to much in the way of "career," don't be foolish enough to think that the Workdogs are anything less than great rock'n'roll assets. They may look a little daffy, but one glimpse into the Workdogs' eyes says they've got it all on you. Sharing the name of a dead president's brother is no cakewalk. The honorable Rob K is liable to say anything once he starts to preaching his walking-talking blues, and chances are he'll be able to figure his way out. He swears sympathetically by the most impossible of hard times, the trickiest of rhymes, and the most excusable of crimes. Looking to learn a little of the Workdogs' natural-born and hard-earned wits. Marcellus Hall of Railroad Jerk and Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion lend guitars to hall of these ten tracks. Honeymoon Killer Jerry Teel and Velvet Monkey Malcolm Riviera also kick in. It was probably the jukebox more than anything else that kept the Workdogs down thus far. Once a bar owner could get music that didn't talk poobahs like Rob K, and Scott Jarvis were numbered. With his gift of gab. Rob K takes you wherever he's been, wherever that he had, the hospital behind the wheel of a big rig, or in the arms of a neighbor's wife. Please don't be tricked by the "harmless old cool" guise-these two are wolves in sheeps' clothes, kid. You have to listen to a man with a talking dog and $1000 of a hooker's money in his underware, and this is the first Workdogs record to really lay it down.

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