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Dig
Wayne & the Chisellers
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ShackRouser
RBR 5658 Rhythm Bomb
Records
Shack Rouser - Just A
Flirt - The Hell You Say
- Four Mill Hill Blues -
Black Widow - Dont Mean
No Never Mind - Lucky
Number 13 - Devil Red -
She Walked Away - I'll
Wind - Blue Is The Color
Of Love - Wagon Wheel.
Dig Wayne is back…Who
is that guy? Remember,
you know him well. Dig
was one of the first
american rockabilly
revivalist from the
beginning of the eighties
with his band Buzz and
the Flyers before forming
The JoBoxers, scoring
international hits (Boxer
Beat, Just Got Lucky,
Johnny Friendly…)
and becoming a successful
actor with movies, TV and
theatre.
In 2005, he appears at
the second Greenbay
Rockin’ Festival and
one year later he was
invited at the Rockabilly
Rave in England. That
cool guy was always
different: a black guy in
a white rockabilly world,
a kinda pop and new-wave
lover, one of the founder
of the neo-rockabilly
style against the fifties
fundamentalists. He hasn’t
really changed in spite
of the more than 25 years
past since his first and
last rockabilly album.
This “little”
album (only 12 tracks)
called “Shack Rouser”
is recorded for the
Rhythm Bomb Records with
the help of the
Chisellers, a band made
of Jeffrey P.Ross,
Russell Scott, Philippe
Aubuchon, Carl Sonny
Leyland with the
engineering of Deke
Dickerson, the master of
the Ecco-Fonic Studios in
L.A. Be prepared to hear
some modern rockabilly,
only self-penned songs, a
mixture of smooth and
cool mid-tempos songs
with bongos, harmonica
and piano that remind me
of the eighties jazzy
“Matt Bianco-Carmel-Mink
DeVille” style (“Black
Widow”, “She
Walked Away”) with
some drivin’modern
rockabillies (“Shack
Rouser”, “Don’t
Mean No Never Mind”,
“Devil Red”).
Wayne ends his album with
a gospel “Wagon
Wheel”. I’ve
particularly appreciated
the “Lucky Number 13”
song with his atmospheric
guitar. But there is
something missing in this
album, nothing to do with
the soul but rather with
the flesh. Even if the
band is made of first
class musicians, the
sound is a little too
weak to make this album
more than very pleasant
to listen to. But Dig is
a great live performer
and I’m sure he can
overcome this mildness on
stage.
Long Tall David
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