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Check out TERRY ANDERSON and the OLYMPIC ASS-KICKIN TEAM  latest cd "National Champions " Buy it: Click Here Terry Anderson’s best-known tunes were done by others and are not here - the Georgia Satellites' "Battleship Chains" and Dan Baird's "I Love You Period.") Anderson can do straight-up and melodic in winning fashion - see the likes of "Weather or Not" and "Sunday Dress." But most of the time the North Carolinian and his mighty OAKTeam are gleefully tearing up pea patches like "Daddy Had a Wreck" and "I Feel a Drunk Comin' On." The influences are obvious - NRBQ, Faces, Chuck Berry, etc. - but it's also clear how smartly and colorfully Anderson twists them to create his own indelible rock-and-roll personality. ~Nick Cristiano
You'll be forgiven for thinking that Terry Anderson would have run out of songs by now. He's been at it for over 30 years, and his tunes have stocked the shelves for the Fabulous Knobs, the Woods, the Yayhoos, various other Dan Baird enterprises, and, of course, the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team. But, nope, here he is back with another batch - songs about sex, women, sexy women, America the Contradictory, Barry Bonds, and a little more sex - and it just might be his best collection yet. He and the mighty OAKTeam surround the stories with a busting-at-the-seams sound that caroms back and forth between chicken-fried power pop and huge-speaker barband rock (with one stop for a real soul number), and everything goes down easy. Anderson is a music lifer and I'd like to officially request a lifetime pass. At a time when listening to some artists' music feels like work, the output from Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass Kickin Team is pure play. Anderson kneels before a Mount Rushmore of Berry, Richards, Lowe, and Westerberg, and I, in turn, genuflect before him. Damn, he's good. ~Rick Cornell