There's
no doubt that in recent months we have seen the rise of 60s inspired
bands in the wake of the phenomenal success of Jake Bugg.
The ones
that are floating to the top are all of a certain type though.
Mainly
precocious teens reliving a sound that was already old when their
parents were teenagers.
While
some of the acts are impressive to a degree there's already talk that
apart from Bugg the bubble will soon burst as there's a gap between
what is being pushed into the market and what the listener is looking
to hear.
It would
seem that the labels who jumped on the Bugg bandwagon may have
misjudged the appetite of the public for fresh faced kids wearing
Beatle-esque suits and pedalling a clean take on early pop.
So with
that in mind it would be easy to discount others who are treading a
similar path.
However
that would leave us missing out on the gloriously joyous take on
skiffle by Scotland's own Cabey.
There's
no real attempt to emulate current trends, but instead a very strong
sense of a young man immersing himself in a traditional sound that is
really the roots of the UKs rock and roll scene that everything grew
from.
On the
track Dr Feelgood there's the paring of Lonnie Donegan with the
outlaw lyricism of country legend Johnny Cash, and although the music
itself is echoing the past there's a timeless attraction to it when
the material is so lovingly embraced.
Once the movers and shakers have dropped the kids in the leather waistcoats and mop tops
there's a very good chance that when the dust clears Cabey will be
the last man standing due to his avoidance of letting a label
manufacture a sound and image for him.
Dr
Feelgood is out on Monday 5th August on itunes and other
download sites
Cabey will be supporting Steve Diggle in Glasgow on the 26th of September and in Kilmarnock on the 27th September.
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