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As any quick perusal of old Top 40 rock & roll station playlists will attest, singles were where the shakin' action was, as rock & roll albums were scarce as hen's teeth back in those pre-Beatle days. But when the record companies decided to issue one, it was usually an artifact of high rockin' value and some major influence. Naysayers to the contrary, this debut album by the Northwest's first great rock & roll combo is just such an artifact. The Wailers dispensed crude, greasy, largely instrumental rock & roll music for those who came to shake it up and shake it down, and it's all on fine, rhythmic, open display here. This album is amazing in its own simplistic, nuthin'-special way, its crudity almost palpable. There's only one vocal aboard, Kent Morrill's "Dirty Robber," later covered and torched by the Sonics. Everything else is built on the riff-sturdy bones of their biggest hit, "Tall Cool One." With two guitars, piano, sax, and drums -- no bass player anywhere on here, another crudeness indicator of the times and locale it was recorded in -- all blasting away like they're working a VFW Hall dance, hoof shakers like "Wailin'," "Shanghaied," "Beat Guitar" (featured in the soundtrack ...
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While most rock fans know Mitch Easter as the man who seemingly produced every great jangle pop act of the 1980s and helped launch R.E.M. into the indie rock stratosphere (at a time when such a thing barely existed), his work as a musician and a songwriter never seemed to earn the same degree of attention, which is strange considering how good most of it was. Easter's band Let's Active cut three albums and an EP which, by all rights, should have made him the darling of the college radio (and maybe even the pop charts) with their sharp hooks and insightful lyrics; but the band's following never seemed to grow beyond a small, but rabid, cult. Thankfully, that cult consisted of some pretty talented people, and a bunch of them have joined forces to pay homage to Easter's songs on Every Word: A Tribute to Let's Active. Significantly, the album's best performances are the ones that drift farthest from what Easter and his bandmates had in mind; most of the participants on Every Word seem to have their own take on what great pop means to them, and Tommy Womack's skiffle-ish cover of "Make up With Me," Failed Energy Giants' (featuring Tim Lee) transformation of "Blue Line" into a surf tune, and the arty, almost psychedelic re-imagining of "Room With a View" from Marti Jones testify to the diversity and malleability of Easter's compositions. And hearing tracks like "Waters Part" by Doug Powell, The Crowd Scene's "Writing the Book of Last Pages," "Talking to Myself" by The Saving Graces, and "Two Yous" by Drop Quarters is to hear great pop songs played with passion, intelligence, and imagination. If the original Let's Active recordings communicated the same message, as well (and often better), that doesn't change the fact that Every Word offers 20 solid examples of why Easter deserves to be acknowledged as one of the finer songwriters o
Liner Note Authors: Chris Xefos; Jay Manley; Dave Keyes; Jim Huie; Graham Davies; Mark Pyskoty; Don Dixon; Doug Powell; Doug Davis; John Micek; Michael Slawter; David Bash; Scott Miller; Fred Mills ; Gil Ray; Tim Lee; Parke Puterbaugh; Ira Robbins; Doug Mayo; Jamie Hoover; Jerry Chapman; Ken Stringfellow; Kimberley Rew; Marti Jones; Neilson Hubbard; Paul Chastain; Peter Holsapple; Richard Barone; Spike Priggen; Bill Lloyd; Tommy Womack; Will Rigby; Bobby Sutliff.
Recording information: Earthloop Studios, Alexandria, VA; Fireproof Recording, Brooklyn, NY; Fly Trap Studios, W-S, NC; Julia's Place, Washington DC; Kat P, Knoxville, TN; Magnetic Recording, San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN; Philadelphia, PA; Reflection Studios, Charlotte, NC; RI; Skrang Studio, Powell, OH; The Spa, Canton, OH; The Tape Kitchen, Brooklyn, NY; Treehouse ...
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