Long Tall Texans "Five Beans In The Wheel" 1989

...Roll on to 1985 and The Long Tall Texans are recording again, this time in the presence of neo-rockabilly legend Boz Boorer. Boz was already famous as a Polecat and was soon to increase that status by becoming Morrissey’s right-hand man. Their fledging efforts resulted in the Ballroom Blitz EP released on Boz’s own Northwood label and are now available again on Anagram’s ‘The Long Tall Texans Story’ double CD...
...The band’s popularity flourished as they belted out high-octane psycho-rockabilly to an ever increasing army of fans who couldn’t get enough of their good time party music. Their first long-player, ‘Sodbusters’, released on Razor, was a hugely anticipated debut, record-buyers eagerly lapped up its genre-mashing slap bass tunes. The Long Tall Texans were by now a regular feature at that now legendary psychobilly venue The Klub Foot as well as the UK club circuit and beyond. More albums, EPs and compilation tracks followed as did Radio 1 airplay and the distinct possibility of the ‘big time’ which would have been sorely deserved. Each album had pushed the perceived genre boundaries further and the more the Texans shoved the more people appeared to love it.
Though never really totally enslaved within the psychobilly bubble the genre’s demise in the UK at the end of the 1980’s coinciding with the closure of the Klub Foot came just at the wrong time for the band on the brink. Undeterred by the minor home-based setback the Long Tall Texans set their sights on the still thriving European scene. This went well but then they took another blow, Boggles decided to hang up his guitar shortly after the release of ‘Singing To The Moon’. The album had been getting attention well beyond the realms of the rocking crowd so his departure was bad timing event number two.
But hey, what’s a band to do? Get a sax player that’s what. Paul, ‘Who’s the fucking hippy’ Mumford suddenly appeared stage-left looking as if he had just come from a tunnel hanging out with Swampy and mates at the Newbury bypass demo. Looks certainly were deceptive though and despite initial misgivings from some sectors of the psychobilly scene he fit right in and the band we into another era of their music. The next album ‘Aces And Eights’ featured Mumford’s sax heavily and continues to be a firm fan favourite...to be continued... - http://www.longtalltexans.co.uk/

trax:
01 Saints and sinners 02 Don't I know It 03 You gotta lose 04 Get so excited 05 Bloody 06 Off my mind 07 Brealaway 08 Low down mean old son of a gun 09 Get back wetback 10 Heatwave 11 Indian 12 Rock'n roll pt 2 13 Your own way 14 Right first time 15 Long tall texan 16 Everybody's rockin 17 We say yeah 18 Ballroom blitz 19 Should I Stay Or Should I Go?