Road Kings

Road Kings Artist: The Road Kings
Label: Surfdog Records Ada
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 720616711021
EAN: 0720616711021
ASIN: B00000JSBM


Release Date: 1999-08-10

Road Kings


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Tracks:

  1. Hurdy Gurdy Monkey Shine
  2. Gunslinger
  3. Boystown (Nuevo Laredo)
  4. Up One Side (Down The Other)
  5. Are You Gonna Get Real?
  6. Casting My Spell
  7. Supercop
  8. Harder Than Your Heart
  9. Holdin' On Again
  10. Hot Wired
  11. Deep Inside
  12. Nobody Hurts Me Like My Baby

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars i was excited to see this cd on amazon.......2004-11-28

i first heard of the road kings sometime in '99 when they opened for mike ness in St. Louis, Mo. They put on an excellent show and I was really impressed but I never heard anything else about them. When I saw that amazon had their cd i quickly purchased it. If your into the whole rockabilly stlye of music this cd is a MUST have.

4 out of 5 stars Road Kings.......2003-03-26

This CD is Jesse Dayton's most pissed off work. The first CD is rockabilly at it's finest, and the live CD is in your face glory. I have seen The Road Kings live many times and this CD is only an sample of the genius that could go national. If Jesse Dayton could make up his mind whether he wants to be George Jones or a true hero, he could likely be Brian Setzer the purist or possibly Townes Van Zant pushed through a Marshall. Buy this CD, it's fantastic.

5 out of 5 stars road kings will rock your face off.......2002-04-12

road kings are an awesome band! i have seen them live many a time, (in texas) sadly not in the recent past! jesse dayton creates vivid images with the storyline lyrics, and backs them up with hard charging guitars without being flashy! road kings are not a typical band! filled with different styles melted together in fashion only jesse dayton can compromise! looking for something different that explodes with energy...after a few whirls in the disk player the road kings will definately cast their spell on you!! this cd is a must!

4 out of 5 stars Road Kings CD a real rocker.......2001-04-24

You may not be impressed by the cover of this CD -- amateur painting and 50s greaser posing a la "Built For Speed" -- but the songs within are solid rockers in the vein of Reverend Horton Heat and ZZ Top. Band leader Jesse Dayton is a strong singer, a vicious guitar player and a great songwriter to boot.

"Hurdy Gurdy Monkey Shines" , the first track, is a swinging rockabilly number that lampoons the music biz to great effect. However, Dayton is creative enough to escape the 50s retro rocker sandtrap, easily shifting styles and textures in the subsequent songs. Gunslinger starts up with a ghostly Delta-sytle blues riff , then slams into high gear with the intensity of ZZ Top's "Lagrange". The next song, "Boystown," slows down with Mexican guitars and a soaring chorus. There are several other gems on the album too. All are well-written, both musically and lyrically.

Interestingly, Jesse Dayton's solo CD on mp3.com drops all pretenses of rockabilly yearnings and instead concentrates on recreating Honky-Tonk country and western music that you might hear in a Texas country saloon in 1966. After hearing the juiced-up energy of the Road Kings first CD, the solo CD was a bit of a letdown. I hope that the Road King's second CD, if it ever makes it into print (the Road Kings Web site, as of early 2001, is now defunct), is more ZZ Top than Hank Williams.

1 out of 5 stars They're great live but.........2001-01-31

This cd fails to live up to their live performance (notice all the other reviewers mention their live shows). The songs just aren't that good, despite the solid production. They're like a bad combination of the Cramps & Rev. Horton Heat and Social D.

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