ROY LONEY - Hundred Miles An Hour

A comprehensive anthology covering the career of one of the great cult artist of American rock `n` roll: ROY LONEY & THE PHANTOM MOVERS. A Hundred Miles an Hour 1978-1989 is an exhilarating, multi-label collection, 28 tracks and 77 minutes of red hot rock `n` roll. With superb quality audio, detailed liner notes, color booklet. Originally lead singer with the legendary Flamin` Groovies (Supersnazz, Flamingo, Teenage Head), Roy Loney kicked off his solo career with the `Artistic As Hell` EP (1978), boasting flat our rockers `Don`t Believe Those Lies` and `Hundred Miles An Hour`. "Primitive rock with taste" is what the man himself called it, and it still sounds utterly contemporary. The superbly crafted Out after Dark album (1979) was semi-acoustic hard rock and rockabilly par excellence - as if Elvis and Scotty had been recorded by Jimmy Miller at Olympic rather than Sam Phillips at Sun. Celebratory anthem `Phantom Mover` and voodoo rocker `Used Hoodoo` are perfect examples of the genre. The killer rockabilly and gloriously R&B charged rockers continue with `Act Of Love`, `Down The Road Apiece`, `Lana Lee`, `Ragged But Wrong` and `Chicken Run Around`.

"4 stars. On top of being a great rock & roll belter with no fear of pushing himself into the red zone, Loney is a fine songwriter with a wildly idiosyncratic sense of humor, and not many roots rockers would have come up with anything like the big city rant "Scum City," the libidinous "Neat Petite," or the tongue-in-cheek hipster anthem "Panic to a Manic Degree." Most of these cuts feature a few other former Groovies backing Loney (including drummer Danny Mihm, bassist George Alexander, and guitarist Tim Lynch -- Cyril Jordan even pops up on two cuts), and while these sessions were cut for small labels that couldn`t always give Loney the studio time and production smarts his songs deserved, when Loney and his sidemen kick into fourth gear the occasionally thin production can be easily forgiven as Loney`s full-bodied voice fills the playing field. The Flamin` Groovies` catalog has been extensively reissued in recent years, but most of Loney`s solo work remains unfortunately hard to find, and A Hundred Miles an Hour is an excellent stopgap until his work starts getting the treatment it deserves; those who wonder what became of Loney after he quit the Flamin` Groovies should do themselves a favor and pick up this profile of a natural born rock & roll genius in action."- AMG.

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