The Stray Cats burst upon the music scene in 1979 with a modernized late 1950s rockabilly sound. Their signature song, \u201cRock This Town,\u201d was named by The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as one of the songs that helped shape rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. Brian Setzer, Les Rocker, and Slim Jim Phantom have since split and reunited a number of times.<\/p>\n
Their latest reunion was for their 40th anniversary. They issued a new studio album and set out on a world tour. They have just released a new live album, Rock This Town: From L.A. To London,\u00a0<\/em>recorded from various concerts on their tour.<\/p>\n The band has retained its energy, which is necessary as their songs tend to be brief blasts of sound. While Setzer has experimented with other styles as a solo artist, when he\u2019s with the Stray Cats, he has a stripped-down rockabilly sound. The album\u2019s 23 tracks are a combination of the old and new, plus one excellent instrumental cover of the surf classic \u201cMisilou.\u201d<\/p>\n The well-known songs retain their original flavor with only a little updating. \u201cRock This Town,\u201d \u201cStray Cat Strut,\u201d \u201c(She\u2019s) Sexy + 17,\u201d and Built For Speed\u201d are instantly recognizable, presented here in classic form. They do not stray from the original studio recordings very much, but it is their energy that keeps the material relevant. Their newer material, including the cut \u201cCat Fight (Over A Dog Like Me),\u201d and some forays into their lesser-known material keep the album from being just a greatest hits re-hash.<\/p>\n While I prefer complete concerts, Rock This Town: From L.A. To London <\/em>presents a complete introduction to the band\u2019s past and present. After four decades, The Stray Cats are who they are and on this live recording, that is more than enough.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":34154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9680],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-45985","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-stray-cats","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45985"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}