Dynamite Music Machine

Dynamite Music Machine Artist: Charlie Chesterman
Label: Slow River Records
Category: Music


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


UPC: 635981002820
EAN: 0635981002820
ASIN: B000005C45


Release Date: 1997-09-09

Dynamite Music Machine


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Tracks:

  1. Goodbye To You
  2. Everybody's Baby
  3. Go Go Li'l Fairlane (Harmony Rocket #6)
  4. True Love Song #9
  5. Big Hairy Eyeball (Harmony Rocket #7)
  6. Tallahassee Lassie
  7. Wants To Be Bob Dylan Singing Electric Guitar Bloo
  8. Bread & Butter
  9. Jaguar Tan
  10. Where'd Ya Go?
  11. I'm Ready
  12. Fireball

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Amazon.com

Boston's Scruffy the Cat was the late-punk-era's equivalent of NRBQ--a band that mixed a love for blues, country, rockabilly, and pop hooks with an unpolished, let-'er-rip irreverence. After Scruffy broke up, its chief singer/songwriter, Charlie Chesterman, celebrated his love of country music on 1996's <I>Studebakersfield</I>, but on 1997's <I>Dynamite Music Machine</I>, he's back to the '50s-rock fundamentals which have always linked him to NRBQ. The dozen songs include two hit singles from 1959--Freddy Cannon's "Tallahassee Lassie" and Fats Domino's "I'm Ready"--plus eight originals that would have comfortably fit that year's AM play-lists. Chesterman even dedicates the new album to "the Holy Trilogy: Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, and the Ramones."

As has been the case throughout his career, Chesterman's biggest asset is a knack for coming up with simple but memorable guitar figures and sing-along choruses, and his biggest liability is a thin tenor with a narrow range. He hedges against the latter by never demanding too much of himself vocally, and he highlights the former by speeding up the guitar riffs so they build up a tension that he releases in his satisfying chorus hooks. The first song, "Goodbye to You," begins as a twangy country ballad but soon shifts gears into an infectious, sax-honking rocker. "True Love Song #9" mimics a Rolling Stones riff as it builds to a Buddy Holly-like romantic confession. On the tongue-in-cheek original, "Wants to Be Bob Dylan Singing Electric Guitar Blooze," Chesterman and his loose-limbed band, the Legendary Motorbikes, seem constantly on the verge of falling apart, but bring the song safely home to its joyful conclusion. <I>--Geoffrey Himes</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars IT ROCKS !!!!!!!!.......1999-04-28

I gave this cd the ultimate test today. I took a drive and I listened to it at full volume and it immediately made me happy. This is Charlie Chesterman's best work even compared to his days with Scruffy The Cat. I predict that this will be one of my most frequently played cds for the summer of '99. Buy it now - thank me later

5 out of 5 stars Swingin'!.......1998-09-18

If you want to understand where mainstream music has gone horribly wrong, this is the disc to buy. It will change you forever and make you realize that Hootie and the Blowfish ISN'T rock-n-roll.

Let me just quote the liner notes: "This recording is dedicated to the Flamin'Groovies, Daddy Cool, Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, and the Holy Trilogy: Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, and The Ramones."

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