[2007 Cherry Red Records]
Cherry Red is delighted to announce the release of another classic album from John Peel's Dandelion Records catalogue,1971's self-titled "Stack Waddy",a raucous four-piece from Manchester.Peel had first seen the band at the Buxton Blues Festival in September 1969.Their performance made a big impression and a first single,'Kentucky'/'Roadrunner',was released just under a year later in August 1970,they soon became Peel's favourite band on the label.Raw,rockin' power bottled in 1971 and unleashed again here!On stage they were loud, aggressive,fairly pissed and remarkably unsubtle,as befitted musicians who were often forced to supplement their meager gig money by working days on construction sites.Their frustrations and energies were poured into music that it was impossible to ignore. In fact, you were better off not to try to ignore it because one of the many Stackwaddy atrocity stories has John Knail (lead singer) jumping off-stage to beat to the floor a man who was paying more attention to his lady than to the band.As the late John Peel OBE said 'Stackwaddy were absolutely incorrigible,everything a rock' n 'roll band should be'.
1.Roadrunner
2.Bring It To Jerome
3.Mothballs
4.Sure Nuff 'N' Yes I Do
5.Love Story
6.Suzie q
7.Country Line Special
8.Rolling Stone
9.Mystic Eyes
10.Kentucky
Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks
11.With One Leap Dan Was By Her Side. 'Muriel' He Breathed
12.Ginny Jo (Original Mix)
13.Hunt The Stag
14.Mystic Eyes (Alternative Version)
15.(Almost) Milk Cow Booze
16.Leavin' Here
17.I'm A Lover Not A Fighter
18.Here Come the Glimmer Man
19.Nadine
Stack Waddy's debut album is one of the "must hear" discs of the early 1970s,an uncompromising roar that might cavort through that shell-shocked no man's land that sprawls between Captain Beefheart and the Edgar Broughton Band,but which winds up defiantly beholden to absolutely nothing else you've ever heard — one reason, perhaps, why the group vanished with so little trace.Recorded live in the studio (or thereabouts, Stack Waddy is a blurring blend of brutal band originals and deliciously mauled covers. Beefheart's "Sure Nuff Yes I Do" is an unblinking highlight, while raw takes on "Suzie Q" and "Road Runner" remind us of the group's mid 60s genesis on the Manchester R&B scene.There's also a version of Jethro Tull's "Love Story" that comes close to topping the Sensational Alex Harvey Band in terms of lascivious power and ferocity.Certainly John Knail takes no prisoners as he howls his way through and while Stack Waddy holds back from completely recreating the live band experience (there's no breaking bottles,for a start),still this is one of those few albums that genuinely requires you to wear protective clothing.
**Enjoy**
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