It’s unbelievable that British garage rocker Jim Jones (previously in Thee Hypnotics, Black Moses, The Jim Jones Revue, Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind) has been bringing a sweat-soaked blast of chaos and classic crunch to the stages for about 25 years, and still hasn’t run out of energy. On Cat Fight, the third album with the Jim Jones All Stars, he bottles the intensity of their live shows and lets it spill everywhere.
The twelve new tracks, produced by Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes), feel like an exciting barroom brawl of rock ’n’ roll at its most dangerous and least polite, in which influences from rhythm & blues, doo-wop, and funk (and even more subdued moments) seep through more and more. It sounds vintage without being reverent, with saxophones and harmony vocals enriching the mean guitars and electrifying screams. Raw grooves and ragged glory from the edge of control.
Cat Fight—recorded by Kevin Harris, produced by Chris Robinson—is out digitally, on CD and vinyl LP, through Silver Arrow Records. Featuring Jim Jones (vocals, guitar), Gavin Jay (bass), Elliot Mortimer (piano), Stuart Dace (tenor saxophone, backing vocals), Tom Hodges (baritone saxophone), Harrison Cole (trumpet), Carlton Mounsher(guitar, vocals), Ali Jones (percussion, vocals), and Aidan Sinclair (drums, vocals), with Chris Robinson (vocals), Chuck Prophet (guitar), and Gloria Jones (vocals) guesting on select tracks.
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