The Cadillac Kings - Gonna Tell Your Momma (2012) [CD Rip]

Cadillac Kings recent album, Gonna Tell Your Momma, has the clear sound essential in a quality live recording. The show was recorded live in Norway, featuring some of the UK's top blues and roots musicians, the Cadillac Kings are probably the favourite band on the UK and European Jump Jive scene. Their sound is inspired by the styles of the 1940s & 1950’s and perhaps some early 1960’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, the kind of thing that suits bryl cream and energetic jiving, and which tips its hat to Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Louis Jordan, and others. This is a band with a reputation for wowing their audiences, from intimate clubs to major festivals, from theatres to dance-halls, the length and breadth of the UK and Europe. Along the way the band has picked up numerous awards including The Times' best blues CD of the year 2004 for 'Highway 17' and Canada's Real Blues Magazine's award for best UK blues act and CD 2009 for 'Trouble in Store'. If you like their music – and the more contemporary, twangy, but equally bright Big Boy Bloater – you’ll really enjoy this. Ding Dong Daddy stands out for Mike Adcock’s bursts of lively accordion. Mike Thomas’s strident vocals are a great listen on songs like the opener, Gonna Tell Your Momma, while Gary Potts contributes vocals reminiscent of Jerry Lee Lewis and cool amplified harmonica on Somebody, a very fine song also featuring some memorable guitar licks. Just a Matter of Time is a song about the arrival of old age. Pleasingly, the tune is as bright and bubbly as its lyrics, such as “The girls ignore you at the bar/ the last time you got lucky was when you found your car/ old age is coming.” Finally, the album features some top boogie woogie piano – this time like Jerry Lee Lewis on keys – from Henri Herbert. Henri also includes a stunning original tune, Boogie Hamar. Often, you can hear the audience having a fine time.