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The Blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll. At least that’s the way the saying goes according to old legends like Muddy and BB. But if the Blues had not just any old baby, but a nasty, cholicky rugrat of a kid that never shut up and drove his poor mommy and daddy through the roof, well, they’d probably call it “Whitey.”“
Whitey’s cranky, full-throttle heavy trance blues quartet is just plain, in-your-face audacious. Whitey throws the kind of relentless rock that push weak-ass posers to the back of the house. Plus, their growling, fuzzed out licks and throat-burning screams tell us they're not doing this to screw off. This is the real friggin’ deal.
Whitey is saturated with the blues the way gas spreads through a puddle. But it’s also modern as hell, with deafening waves of distorted metal brutality. Style-wise, the band makes wide turns, from Jesus Lizard hypno-grunge to even sicker stuff that’ll remind you of the Melvins’. At its best, it’s mind-warping noise that borders on the extreme without sinking into an experimental quagmire. Whitey flat out rocks.
This is the kind of baby that the blues should have had before it was too late, before that pampered infant grew up and started listening to Bon Jovi and Nickelback. This is the kind of baby it’d be cool to have, once it got over that nasty cholic and started callin’ you Pop.
RAndy, formerly of dicked-over major label act Glazed Baby, finally has the kind of band that’s ready; it’s coiled on its haunches, prepared to lunge viciously and unsympathetically at unsuspecting audiences. As RAndy’s first real crack at getting back in the game, the savage Whitey proves the time is finally right.
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Discography:
Don't Tread On Hope - CD EP (sf recordings)
Is This Blues Enough 4U (Baby)? - CD LP (sf recordings)
When Good Things Happen to Bad People - CD LP (sf recordings)
The Whitey Album - CD LP (sf recordings)
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