The Stray Cats are back after 26 years with their new album titled ’40’. The band started 40 years ago and this is the celebration of that fact. The album feels like you are back in the 80’s when they were tearin’ up the charts with “Stray Cat Strut” and “Rock This Town”. The album has that feel, that energy and it is “Rockabilly” at its finest.
With Brian Setzer on guitar, Lee Rocker on the Stand-Up Bass and Slim Jim Phantom on drums, they fly through 12 songs that make you feel you are back in the 50’s listening to Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran, Chuck Berry and every other legend from the time.
From the opening track “Cat Fight (Over a Dog Like Me)” to “Rock It Off” and “Cry Danger”, you want to get up, slick the hair back and swing dance all night. Brian is in rare form on vocals and guitar playing with songs like “That’s Messed Up” and “Devil Train” and the whole band is just killin’ it through-out. You even get sage advice on “When Nothing’s Going Right” – Brian tells you to just go Left! Mind blown!!
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