 Rumble Club - www.rumbleclubrecords.com
In Case Of Rumble (released 2007)
Rumble Club Records - www.rumbleclubrecords.com
Kentucky-based four piece rockabilly group, Rumble Club, have graced us with a sixteen track album of modern country tinged hillbilly rock. Greasers unite! Underground lounge lizards raise your drinks! This is heavy, gritty bar brawling rock n roll, not too unlike Reverend Horton Heat. Where the Reverend takes a lot of influence from country and rockabilly artists, he also infuses a grunge sound: loud monsterous guitars. That's where the comparison stops with Rumble Club. Rumble Club holds closer to the country side of things, steering away from the rock sound, and the larger than life rock n roll guitars...there is a lot of pickin', strummin' and bendin'. The beats are just as you would expect: fast and furious, bouncy and dancable. It's really great stuff on here, definitely drinking music. Really good for drinking when the band jumps through songs about gambling, murder, the devil and leaving town. The comparison with Reverend aside, the band also hits on some roots rock vibes. They strike me similar to Angry Johnny and The Killbillies. You can hear this very clearly on "Leaving This Town". Perhaps the most striking feature of Rumble Club is the lead vocalist. On several occassions Jack Coray delivers a dead on Johnny Cash...I mean on nearly every track! His extremely deep voice makes or breaks the songs on this album. He can bring it in tight and low or bellowing and voracious, adding to the maddeningly fast rhythms laid down by the rest of the band. The most Johnny-esque vocals appear on "Murder 1"...fricken' incredible! For being the band's second album, you'd never know it. They've got a tight sound, and seem pretty aggressive in their aproach to a well defined and scrutinized genre. Fans of fast paced country doused rockabilly, the Reverend and even roots rock should check out the power of the Rumble Club. -MG |
