This is old-fashioned rock and roll the way it's always been meant to be… sweaty, smelly and dirty.

Dripping sweat-tinged guitar grooves in the finest Grand Funk tradition, Bob City on their debut release is a throw back to the classic rock strains of yesterday… you were probably waiting for me to add, "but they also have this fresh new something…" weren't you?

But that's not really the case. This a barroom brawl set to dark lights, smoke-filled lungs and half-empty liquor bottles-recall the pioneering days of swamp rock and boogie down exploits of Molly Hatchet-tapping the vein of tried and true Southern tradition… a blues stomp-"Stadium '79" with a knife-edged rowdiness, "Kentucky Waterfall," just this side of balls-out punk, with a burning bridge left at every chord struck corner.

"Kentucky Waterfall's" definitely got the tools for a rock radio hit single for any station managers with a little left in the way of guts… but barring any major miracles, this one should be an underground fave anyway for the downtrodden and previously uninspired.

"Lady Victory" lets it all hang loose in much the same fashion-like a torn and tattered concert shirt that you just won't throw away for its nostalgic appeal, Bob City's got that… not to mention this anti-rock star authenticity to their trucker image that should appeal to the working class, dirt for dollar blue collar crowd looking for their next excuse to hoist a fist in the air once their beer runs empty!

Released y Derailleur Records

Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu]