Name: Let's Rock
Brand: Blind Pig
SKU: 88006
Price: 28.75 USD
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Let's Rock

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Album: Let's Rock
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Let's Rock!
2)	Rockin' over China
3)	Midnight on the Strand
4)	Do You Mind?
5)	Angel Got Married
6)	Truck Stop at the End of the World
7)	One More Ride
8)	Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash
9)	Rockabilly Funeral
10)	Tranfusion
11)	Home of Rock & Roll

Performer Notes

Commander Cody: Commander Cody; Bruce Barlow (bass guitar); Austin DeLone, Tony Johnson, Bill Kirchen.
Personnel: Commander Cody (vocals, piano); Bill Kirchen (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Austin DeLone (vocals, guitar, accordion, piano, organ); George Frayne (vocals, keyboards); Bruce Barlow (vocals, electric bass); Tony Johnson (vocals, drums, gong); Peter Siegel (dobro); Rob Sudduth (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Keith Crossan (tenor saxophone).
Additional personnel: Bobby Black (pedal steel guitar); Keith Crossan, Peter Siegel, Rob Sudduth.
Recording information: Prairie Sun Studios, Cotati, CA.
Photographers: Commander Cody; Barbara Buros; Rhys Clark.
This 1987 release finds Commander Cody joined by old Lost Planet Airmen members Bruce Barlow (on bass) and Bill Kirchen (on guitar). Multi-instrumentalist Austin de Lone and drummer Tony Johnson round out the group. The band dives headlong into an 11-song set exploring some of the group's favored forgotten corners of the early days of rock & roll. The band's originals evoke the spirit of the era without ever sounding like lifeless museum pieces. The musically diverse group can swing hard, rock hard, and let lose with a country weeper. As one might expect, Commander Cody's slightly irreverent sense of humor is here in abundance. "Transfusion" is a natural for him, and his own "Truck Stop at the End of the World" blends goofiness with naturalism for a fine and catchy three-minute ode to life on the road. Kirchen and de Lone also split the lead vocal duties with Cody.