You won't see Dick Dales hits on this record, but the set is good. Songs like Eddy Cochran's "Summertime Blues," Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind" and Ray Charles' "What I'd Say" appear with Dick Dales own unique playing style showing up on them. I really like this record and if you like surf music, or even the blues, you probably will too. - Steph
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01 Peter Gunn 02 Money Honey 03 Angry Generation 04 Summertime Blues 05 Blowin' In The Wind 06 Don't Stop Now 07 Let's Go Trippin' ' 65 08 Bony Moronie 09 Watusi Jo 10 Money 11 What'd I Say
…During the latter days of the Untamed Youth, Dickerson joined forces with fellow Missouri transplant Dave Stuckey to form the Dave & Deke Combo, which specialized in rockabilly and vintage hillbilly sounds. The band soon became the toast of the Los Angeles retro scene and developed a potent following overseas, with British label No Hit Records releasing their first record in 1993 and the band touring Europe several times to enthusiastic crowds. In 1995, the band's acclaimed Hollywood Barn Dance album hit the shelves, but the combo amicably split up a year later so Dickerson and Stuckey could pursue other musical avenues. Shortly before the Dave & Deke Combo called it quits, Dickerson began moonlighting with the Go-Nuts, a garage-flavored "snak-rock" combo, in which he appeared as the masked "Donut Prince" as the band humorously celebrated the glories of junk food. In 1998, Dickerson debuted his new group, Deke Dickerson & His Ecco-Fonics (named for a brand of tape echo unit made in the 1950s). Running the musical gamut from rockabilly and hillbilly to surf, jump blues, and instrumental rock, Dickerson and his band were soon signed to Hightone Records, and released their debut album, Number One Hit Record, in the fall of 1998. Two more albums for Hightone followed, 1999's More Million Sellers and 2000's Rhythm, Rhyme & Truth, before Dickerson struck out on his own in 2003 with In 3-Dimensions!, the first release on his own Major Label label. The rarities collection Mister Entertainment appeared the same year. Dickerson also launched a second label, Ecco-Fonic Records, to release material by himself and like-minded artists, and he compiled a disc of highlights from his Hightone releases, My Name Is Deke, which was released in 2004. As well as releasing a steady stream of albums through his Ecco-Fonic label, Dickerson has recorded music for the films Election and Sideways, scored the documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, provided musical cues for Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour, and produced albums for Dig Wayne, "Blind" Rage and Violence, and Lisa & Her Kin. Dickerson also teamed up with surf/garage rock legends the Trashmen in 2014 to record the album Bringing Back the Trash; cut an EP with R&B vocalist Nikki Hill (Soul Meets Country), and provided the vocals for a set of covers of instrumental hits from Los Straitjackets. In 2015, Rockbeat released another collection of Dickerson's Hightone Records material, simply titled Greatest Hits.
...Besides his singles there's 22 unreleased tracks from the 1950's that are equally good--they aren't here just for filler--no way. Lenoir was a very fine lyricist and an adequate guitarist in a simple, rhythmic way. But his backing bands were always filled with fine players like Sunnyland Slim on piano, Leroy Foster-guitar, J.T. Brown-tenor sax (hear his album from the '50s), Willie Dixon-bass, and on the two Shad label tunes, Junior Wells on harmonica. He used small combos on these tracks that almost always included piano and a horn or two and drums. Also included are two Decca tracks with Lenoir solo on vocals and guitar (one track is 26 seconds long) for a nice change of pace. There's two tunes under Johnny Shines' name from '53 on the Constellation LP, "Livin' In The Whitehouse", and "Please Don't" with Sunnyland Slim-piano, J.T. Brown-sax, Lenoir-guitar, and bass and drums. Plus there's three tracks under Sunnyland Slim's name also from '53 with a combo similar to the Shines' tracks. Except for the vocals these tracks are similar sounding to the Lenoir tracks.
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