What's Good for You

Treat Her Right | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 26, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rounder
• ASIN: B0000003K3
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,756 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU is good for me, too..., September 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: What's Good for You (Audio CD)

After having two albums and a recording contract buried by RCA suits with no sense of revisionist blues, Treat Her Right packed up their beer-soaked bar tunes and headed back to Boston where the clubs were small and the recording studios even smaller. The result was 1991's WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU, a passionate sampling of the group's ability to turn low-fi swamp muck and raunchy blues obscurities into pure gold. Among the cover tunes were Bob Dylan's "From A Buick 6", The Rolling Stones' "Factory Girl", and John Lee Hooker's "Tease Me"--all tattooed with Treat Her Right's 100% Grade-A voodoo. A handful of smart and quirky originals rounded out the disc, making the band one of the best kept secrets of the late 80s/early 90s. Somewhere out there, you know Dr. John is listening to WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU and smiling a big, gumbo-stained grin...

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is Good For You, April 25, 2001

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P. Rose "p_robert_rose" (Connecticut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What's Good for You (Audio CD)

Treat Her Right was one of those bands that should have been heard live. They brought a twist to the Chicago blues sound - a Bostonized blues that hits the mark. Their two "studio" recordings did not capture the essence of their sound - raw, gutteral, bluesy... LIVE. "What's Good For You" fixes what a studio tends destroy for earlier THR records - a live studio album.

The album was recorded by the band in a single session - using the approach that so many great Chess blues albums were recorded. This approach makes the album feel more like a set than an album - finding a groove that is carried from the first cut - the classic Buck Owens tune "Rhythm and Booze" - all the way through to the last track "Come Back". The album is mostly covers of songs by the Stones, Dylan, Johnny Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon - all to great effect.

The disc is well worth the investment -but don't forget to grab a beer or two for the full effect.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sandman-- Rest his soul, December 17, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: What's Good for You (Audio CD)

Was one of the best vocalists around the local Boston scene. This is by far Treat Her Right's Best album-- THR came before Morphine, btw. This is a wonderful blues album. period. It's raw, edgy basement music that'll have you grooving through your kitchen, if yer not careful.