Cal Carter may not have made much of a name for himself as a solo artist, but as an arranger he's pretty prolific. I've seen his name attached to Canned Heat and Clarence Carter, though I'm not 100% it's the same guy. I do know from listening to this 45 (with Cal's name on the minit label) that Our Cal had a hand in it.
It's a good indication of what this album sounds like. Cal stuffs these worn classics so full of embellishment that they sound like new songs. It's almost got a rock & roll meets pep band thing (which is to say, sounds like the Routers) and I wouldn't be surprised if Cal has a background there.
The A-Side of this is way more exciting, despite being much more familiar songs. I was pretty pleased to find our New Orleans favorite "Mother In Law" covered, and he seems to recognize all the things that would make it a great instrumental. If you liked that Steve Garrick two posts ago, I kinda think this destroys it, though it may be a little less goofy.
This isn't a pristine rip, but it plays smoothly at least. Enjoy it!
4 comments:
your background reminds me of a green version of 311's transistor album
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:311_transistor.jpg
but I can't read the text : (
Hey hey! Now THIS is a record I can kick off a New Year's Eve party with!
I just stumbled in here, but I'm gonna be back...thanks for puttin' it up there!
Thank you. I always have room for another twist LP in my collection.
Thank you very much for this happy LP ! Twist music = happy music.
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