Juicy Lucy - Who Do You Love - The Anthology (2002)

Sanctuary's release of Who Do You Love: The Anthology by rootsy English hard rock and blues band Juicy Lucy, which contains all three of their three proper albums (Juicy Lucy, Lie Back and Enjoy It, and Get a Whiff of This) is proof positive that they'll reissue anything. Juicy Lucy did score with a remake of Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love," which was a vehicle for slide guitarist Glenn Ross Campbell, on their 1969 debut, but that was about it. (These days one hit single would never guarantee a second, let alone third, album.) The band was formed after the Misunderstood -- a fine British blues and rock band who never received their proper due -- dissolved. The bottom line is that Juicy Lucy was more a covers band than anything else, though Campbell and the band wrote a few songs, as well. The covers range from Chuck Berry's "Nadine" to Willie Dixon's "Built for Comfort"; from Gregg Allman's "Midnight Rider" to the Frank Zappa tune "Willie the Pimp!" For those who were taken in and turned on by this kind of prattle back in the day, this will no doubt be a blessing. The rest of us can blissfully ignore that music like this was ever made. © Thom Jurek