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  • Head Cat, The - Walk The Walk… Talk The Talk

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    Released by: Niji Entertainment Group

    Released on: 6/21/2011

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    The second album from The Head Cat (made up of Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister on bass and lead vocals, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats fame on drums, and Danny B. Harvey of The Lonesome Spurs and The Rockats on guitar), 2011's Talk The Talk… Walk The Walk is the first of their efforts to feature some original compositions. There are still plenty of cover tracks here, enough to please most fans, but unlike 2006's Fool's Paradise (which was actually originally issued in 2000 under a different name as they hadn't yet decided on calling themselves The Head Cat!), this time around the boys put pen to paper and come up with some never before heard tracks, done in the same pure, undiluted rock n roll style that made the first album so much fun.


    One of those originals, American Beat (the other is entitled The Eagle Flies On Friday), kicks off the album with appropriately raucous energy and it sets the tone for the eleven tracks which follow, making an even dozen songs that last just short of a half an hour in length. Like the first album, this one is just too damn short. That's really the only criticism you can levy here, however. Lemmy and company not only show their roots here but show their pride in and love of those roots. The idea of Lemmy covering Cream's take on Robert Johnson's Crossroads might not sound like something you'd want to hear, but it's done with such gruff sincerity that you can't help but appreciate it. Even when he's taking on sweeter fare than that, Trying To Get To You for example, Lemmy's booze addled throaty vocals never falter and never sound less than one hundred percent honest.


    Slim Jim provides a mean backbeat for Harvey to wail off of, and wail he does, playing tight lead guitar over top of a cleaner bass sound you might expect given Motorhead's sound, but one that lends itself pretty much perfectly to what they're trying to do here. The Head Cat even has some fun with a Beatles track, covering You Can't Do That and Bad Boy (the later technically done by Larry Williams first but probably better known as a Beatles song - sorry Larry). Throw in a pretty awesome take on Eddie Cochrane's Something Else that's better than Sid Vicious' version, a cover of Chuck Berry's Let It Rock and a surprisingly soulful take on I Ain't Never. There's no irony here, no hipster bullshit, just three guys playing their hearts out and having a whole lot of fun with the music they love - it's infectious as anything you're likely to hear and if you this record doesn't get your foot tapping, get yourself to a doctor because you've probably lost all feeling.

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