"Sugar Lump" (Buffalo Bop 55061)

This is another hot 30-song anthology from Buffalo Bop, consisting of mostly hot rocking numbers with a country bent…...David Dunn's "Rock Me" manages some impressive guitar pyrotechnics and solo sax acrobatics, and it pretty well sets the standard for this set. "Gonna Be Nice Tonight," a primitive piece of rock & roll that might almost qualify as "retarded" in its reliance on repeated words, may not have belonged here, but most of the rest is professional and more than a little inspired. Terry Dunavan's "Rockin' at School" is a nicely paced piece of teen fantasy, and Billy Adkinson's "Sugar Lump" is a surprisingly hard-edged number, considering its title. An outfit called the Shadows, having nothing to do with Hank B. Marvin and company, provides a free-wheeling, smoothly professional "Redwood Fence," sparked by a Chuck Berry-inspired guitar break. "Katy D" by Billy and the Jokers is a cheerful delineation of teenaged rural lust, and Chance Halladay's "Home Run" (which never had a prayer of airplay) has a lot of fun with baseball terminology and romance set to a decent rocking beat. There's only one ringer here amid these generally wild and lusty rockers -- Jimmy Work's beautiful, relatively languid "Tennessee Border" is stuck in here, and it's a little too country although it does fit in with the social ambience of some of the rest of the music, if not the genre. It definitely pales beside Glenn Mooney's loud, wild, roaring "Come Over Rover" and Leroy Bowman's "Uh Huh," with its intimate inventory of the object of his affections ("she's five-foot-two, every little inch is fine"). A lot of those present looked like singularly unlikely rock & rollers, but the sound on 27 of these 30 tracks shows that almost any of them might have made it. (Bruce Eder, Allmusic)

trax:
1. Sweet As She Can Be - Billy Adkinson 2. Scrapiron - Prentis Slade 3. Rock Me - David Dunn 4. You're A Cheater - Don Sessions 5. Back To School Again - Teddy Lee Michael 6. Gonna Be Nice Tonight - The Phantoms 7. Sugar Lump - Billy Adkinson 8. Cry, Woman Cry - Larry Wheeler 9. Candy Store - Curt Furr 10. Rockin' At School - Terry Dunavan 11. Redwood Fence - The Shadows 12. Katy-D - Billy & The Jokers 13. Mine All Mine - Fred Cuno 14. Home Run - Chance Halladay 15. There Ain't Nothin' True About You - Bobby Nelson 16. No Use Knocking On My Door - Lanie Walker 17. No Chance - Ramon Maupin 18. Sugaree - Rusty York 19. You Lied To Me Honey - Junior Gravley 20. Little More Lovin' - Chuck Comer 21. Ennie Meenie Miney Mo - Lanie Walker 22. Tennessee Border - Jimmy Work 23. Come Over Rover - Glenn Mooney 24. Uh Huh - Leroy Bowman 25. Oh Pattie - Johnni Kaye 26. Please Please Baby - Bobby Brown 27. Bette Lou - Bob Bowman 28. Sweet Love [vers. 2] - Rusty York 29. Down At Big Mary's House - Bobby Brown 30. Love Gone - Ramon Maupin
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