The LeRoi Brothers "Check This Action!" 1983 + "Moon Twist" 1981 - 7"/45rpm

My first brush with the LeRois was when I picked up their "Forget About The Danger..." EP, which blew me away back in '84…...I then immediately searched out Check This Action, which had been released the previous year on the local Jungle Records label. Rounder records subsequently released the 13-song collection on CD in 1994, and I have both versions... This is a great rock & roll record, featuring some excellent guitar and vocal work by both Steve Doerr and Don Leady (who later went on to form the Tail Gators, a wonderful swamp-rock outfit)..."Are You With Me Baby (Say Yeah)," "Chicken and Honey," "Steady With Betty, "Rockin' Daddy" and "Eternally Blue" are all endlessly listenable (although I prefer the EP version of "Eternally"); and Leady apparently enjoyed doing "Til It's Too Late" on this album so much that he later recorded it with the Tail Gators as well (and why not?--it's a great song!). I once saw the LeRois and the Blasters in concert together; though in all honesty the Blasters may be the best live outfit there is, the Brothers weren't far behind. Highly recommended. - Reviewer: "jbesanko" (Crofton, MD United States)The LeRoi Brothers:
Yvonne Vocals (Background) / Tina O'Neill Vocals (Background) / Kristine Cummings Organ / Steve Doerr Accordion, Harmonica, Vocals, Vocals (Background), Guitar / Don Leady Guitar, Vocals / The Don Vocals (Background) / Monica Vocals (Background) / Mike Vocals (Background) / Gary Vocals (Background) / Keith Ferguson Bass / Mike Buck Drums, Percussion

trax:
01 Are You With Me Baby (Say Yeah) 02 Can't Be Satisfied 03 Ain't I'm A Dog 04 Big Time Operator 05 Steady With Betty 06 Check This Action 07 Chicken And Honey 08 Rockin' Daddy 09 Cotton Pickin' 10 Crazy, Crazy Lovin' 11 Ballad Of A Juvenile Delinquent 12 'Til It's Too Late 13 Eternally Blue

"Moon Twist" 1981 - 7"/45rpmtrax:

01 Check This Action 02 Rockin' Daddy 03 Moon Twist 04 Chicken & Honey