Go To Blazes - ...And Other Crimes

Strictly limited to 500 coloured vinyl hand numbered. Juke Joint 500 is a brand new label launched by Stag-O-Lee head honcho Reinhard Holstein dedicated to vinyl issues of classic releases from the CD age. Originally released in 1995 as Mailorder Only CD on Glitterhouse Records, And Other Crimesis a fan favorite. Recorded in two days live at Coyote Records and produced by Eric Roscoe Ambel, the Philly 4-piece Go To Blazes played a few of their own songs as well as tunes by Gordon Lightfoot, Kinky Friedman, Lou Reed, Lee Hazlewood, Gene Clark, Cary Hudson, Hank Williams and others. All in a semi-acoustic mode. After years of hard rocking, the band finally unplugged in 1995 with ?And Other Crimes, for the German Glitterhouse label. This live-in-thestudio date is filled with smarter-than-bar-band covers, each one given a half-reverent, halfsneering spin. And if rollicking, slide-guitar-tinged treatments of Gene Clark?s Out on the Side or Kinky Friedman?s Sold American aren?t twisted enough, check the downwardly mobile originals Got It Made and Waste of Time to hear just how closely the band?s sense of rebellion mirrors that of anti-heroes Hank Williams Jr. and Lee Hazlewood.?