{"id":25959,"date":"2025-01-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25959"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:21:08","slug":"diamond-dogs-spedding-chris-macon-georgia-giants-wild-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25959","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Dogs & Spedding Chris:\u00a0Macon Georgia Giants (Wild Kingdom)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well, did anyone really see this collaboration coming in 2025? Sweden\u2019s finest boogie-woogie merchants Diamond Dogs joining forces with legendary 70\u2019s producer\/session player Chris Spedding (\u2018Motorbikin\u2019 anyone?) to record a homage to the king of rock n\u2019 roll Little Richard. With the album \u2018Slap Bang Blue Rendezvous\u2019 in 2022 and \u2018About The Hardest Nut To Crack\u2019 the following year, Sulo and the boys have certainly been keeping busy at this point in their career. I think after 30 years in the business and 13 studio albums down the road, they have earned the right to take it easy and record a tribute to one of their greatest influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recorded live to tape, one hour per track is how Diamond Dogs roll, like the cool cats did back in the day, and it works in their favour. From the off the band have a live energy and a swagger only a true seasoned live band can command. Add to that the guitar talents of Chris Spedding, and we have a really cool match of flavours adding their take on Little Richard\u2019s musical legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These primal bursts of rock n\u2019 roll damnation are perfectly delivered through the Diamond Dogs cannon. Top players, killer vocals and modern production breathe new life into some well-known, and some not so well-known timeless classics. Opener \u2018King Of Rock n\u2019 Roll\u2019 is cocksure and full of bravado. Sulo\u2019s raspy tones are on point, aided and abetted by The Duke Of Honk, Spedding on guitar, a cool boogie-woogie bass line and matching song dynamics. Close your eyes and you can just imagine the boys jamming it away in Dog Pound Studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The likes of \u2018Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey\u2019 and \u2018Great Gosh Almighty\u2019 go a long way to remind the listener where the roots of good time rock n\u2019 roll lie, and just how pivotal in the history of music Little Richard truly was. Songs such as \u2018Dew Drop Inn\u2019 and \u2018True Fine Mama\u2019 lend themselves well to the Diamond Dogs brand of rhythm & blues, but the standouts for me are the killer \u2018Poor Dog\u2019, with its great dynamics and build to the chorus here. Also, the low-slung rock n\u2019 roll of closer \u2018Bama Lama Bama Loo\u2019 certainly hits the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a good time to be a Diamond Dogs fan. Not only have a bunch of their albums been given the reissue treatment in recent years courtesy of Wild Kingdom (including Sulo\u2019s first solo record) on glorious coloured vinyl, but they continue to write, record and be a touring band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Macon Georgia Giants\u2019 is not only a fitting tribute to the legend that is Little Richard, but it showcases a killer band playing songs they love, pretty much live in the studio. And the thing is, to me this album just sounds like the Diamond Dogs playing Diamond Dogs songs, and if you weren’t aware of the fact they were all Little Richard songs before spinning it, you wouldn’t know any different. And that says a lot for the writing talents of this band for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author: Ben Hughes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, did anyone really see this collaboration coming in 2025? Sweden\u2019s finest boogie-woogie merchants Diamond Dogs joining forces with legendary 70\u2019s producer\/session player Chris Spedding (\u2018Motorbikin\u2019 anyone?) to record a homage to the king of rock n\u2019 roll Little Richard. With the album \u2018Slap Bang Blue Rendezvous\u2019 in 2022 and \u2018About The Hardest Nut To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[691,709],"class_list":["post-25959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-chris-spedding","tag-diamond-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959","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=25959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25961,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959\/revisions\/25961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}