{"id":15932,"date":"2021-07-01T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15932"},"modified":"2021-06-29T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:01:22","slug":"richard-bacchus-the-luckiest-girls-viva-la-wattage-sioux-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15932","title":{"rendered":"Richard Bacchus & The Luckiest Girls – ‘Viva La Wattage’ (Sioux Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>No, your right he doesn’t need any introduction and any self-respecting rock and rolla should know the guy’s pedigree.\u00a0 He was one half of D Generation at a time when music was screaming out for Rock and Roll bands – real Rock and Roll bands and this guy slung his six-string around like his life depended on it and helped save Rock and Roll in the 90s. He left he came back and in between, he released his own album and managed to come to plague island and shake his shit for those of us cool kids who were in the know.\u00a0 He’s had Sami Yaffa sling his four-string around and his Jet Black & Beautiful is one of my most treasured CDs.<\/p>\n

Well, unknown to me or I might just have not been paying too much attention but ‘Viva La Wattage’ kinda just sneaked out into the ether and I had to get one of my stateside besties to pick up a copy for me and ship it over.\u00a0 I don’t remember being this excited to spin an album in a long time.<\/p>\n

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There are a few tunes redone from previous outings and whilst they are neither better they are certainly no worse than previous offerings like the blistering ‘Pugnacious’.\u00a0 With The luckiest Girls being Jimbo Britt on the Bass, Bill Eagan on Drums, Danny Ray on saxophone, Larry Burlison on guitar, and Lutie Cain on vocals this band make a pretty impressive noise and ‘Perfect Example’ is just that.<\/p>\n

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I love Bacchus’ vocals there is a dreamy quality to it that’s engaging and trusting Hell I’ve no idea why that is but it always feels good to hear his taking me on a lyrical adventure with a smirk on his lips and a cheeky glint in his eye no doubt.\u00a0 The songs though,\u00a0 the bloody songs. There is a Clash-like rugged charm about them especially the epic ‘Oh Brother’\u00a0 its smokey late night down the LES and the saxophone is a great addition to the mix – man, it’s such a Noo Yawk saxophone even Johnny Thunders would have approved.\u00a0 But Wait, What?\u00a0 Flip it over and side two begins with the smoldering beast that is ‘Adios Muchacho’ where the Saxophone rules as it meanders through the cracks of the music being laid down by the band.\u00a0 What a tune, No I mean it.\u00a0 Sure as a writer maybe I should try harder to express how the song goes but I can’t.\u00a0 It’s fair to say I love it so much I had to lift the needle to give this one a standing ovation once it finished. From the strummed acoustic and sax wheeze to Bacchus’ storytelling unfolds into a heaving beast of a late-night deal with it I’m smashed kinda song.<\/p>\n

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Bacchus understands what it takes to write Rock and Roll it must be coursing through his veins you can’t teach it you either have it or you don’t and these cats have it.\u00a0 ‘The Luckiest Girl’ is a beauty, it’s the morning after the night before, and walking home at 7 am with a leather jacket over the shoulder and a pair of cool shades on its effortless cool that’s what it is. My only gripe is it’s only twelve songs and not more.<\/p>\n

If you’re wondering if there is scope for some of that Bacchus ska tip well fear not kids ‘Goochi Boxer’ will service all your needs.\u00a0 To close this one off there’s a ragged romp through ‘Bankrobber’\u00a0 and why not?\u00a0 All in all a bloody top-notch record but I expected nothing less but it is nice to know that some artists never let you down.\u00a0 Don’t leave it so long to follow this one up please Mr. Bacchus.\u00a0 \u00a0Hurry to the link and secure your copy before they’re all gone gone gone because they say there are no more after this limited press.<\/p>\n

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Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, your right he doesn’t need any introduction and any self-respecting rock and rolla should know the guy’s pedigree.\u00a0 He was one half of D Generation at a time when music was screaming out for Rock and Roll bands – real Rock and Roll bands and this guy slung his six-string around like his life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5422,6909,158,6910,5424,6908,6911,6912,1195,6913,3770,6907],"class_list":["post-15932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-bass","tag-bill-eagan","tag-d-generation","tag-danny-ray","tag-drums","tag-jimbo-britt","tag-larry-burlison","tag-lutie-cain","tag-new-york","tag-richard-bacchus","tag-saxophone","tag-the-luckiest-girls","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15932"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15939,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15932\/revisions\/15939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}