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4.0 out of 5 stars
Bluesy garage rock from Atlanta, July 3, 2004
This review is from: High Life High Volume (Audio CD)
No doubt this band is tired of being likened to Jet, but with the latter serving as the video poster-boys for this year's go-round of punchy guitar-based rock (having supplanted The Hives, The Vines, White Stripes and other), the comparison is inevitable. But where Jet leans on 70s and 80s stalwarts like Humble Pie and AC/DC, the Forty Fives tread back to mid-60s garage rockers such as The Sonics and Standells, early-70s anti-flower power bands like The Stooges and MC5, and 80s revivalists such as The Lyres and Chesterfield Kings.
The Forty Five's second full-length CD for Yep Roc serves up 10 originals so steeped in the genre that they might as well be covers, and one actual cover - an early-Who styled take of "Daddy Rolling Stone." All are loaded with guitar hooks, supplemented by harmonica, sax and the unmistakable sound of Hammond B-3, underlining raucous rock 'n' roll with a soulful touch of Stax. The band revisits the bar-blues-in-the-garage sounds of the Stones, Shadows of Knight, and Black Crowes with the élan of true rock 'n' roll believers - a commodity that's been in short supply lately.
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