The Return Of Friday Night Is Rockabilly Night 6

You wanna rumble?

Gene Maltais makes his third Friday night appearance with the rough 'n' ready 'n' raw 1957 single Gang War in which Gene sings and riffs like his life depends on it. He later recorded another version Gang War (Fast Version) which is pretty self explanatory, but this one will do for us tonight. Proper old school rockabilly.

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The Return Of Friday Night Is Rockabilly Night 4

OFSTED eh? They come in, crawl all over you, scrutinise everything you do, watch you work and comment on it, make a load of judgements and then leave. The sun still comes up the next day. For the record, we did pretty well and don't expect to see them again until 2013/14. Relief is the main feeling I think, and knackeredness. Open a bottle of something Mrs Swiss.

This is Gene Maltais, whose Raging Sea we rocked to a few weeks ago when this series crawled out of the grave. Gene has a crazy baby. Hope she doesn't steal hubcaps on her way home from school.

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The Return Of Friday Night Is Rockabilly Night 2

One of the great things about rockabilly is there are tons of songs and singers to discover and unless you're a total afficionado you can come across someone who's 'an unknown legend' but totally new to you. In that line, tonight I give you Gene Maltais, whose The Raging Sea I got into recently on the Rocket In My Pocket compilation (out on Ace Records). I've since discovered I've got it on another comp, and another track by him on yet another comp, but somehow have missed them or not listened to them properly- easily done I find when it's a compilation of twenty-five plus songs. Gene Maltais has got a truly great voice and a rocking guitar sound, and this song is the quiffed up business- play it 'til it wears out. Gene wants to love his woman 'like a raging sea', which is just less than 'the force of a thousand suns', a unit noted over at The Ghost Of Electricity blog a while back as very powerful indeed. Top stuff for your Friday night.

CJ- if you happen to be reading this, does the photo of Gene Maltais remind you of anyone we know?

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