Barrence Whitfield & the Savages - Dig Thy Savage Soul - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With it's raw vocals, thick and nasty guitar tones, and preternaturally locked-in rhythm section, Under The Savage SkY might be the most soulful Punk record (or the most Punk Soul record) you've ever heard, raining soul and brimstone from the heavens.

Ow Ow Ow! Blasting out of Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-80s like a wailing, screaming R&B banshee, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages provided music with a much-needed return to a solid rhythm & blues base at a time when popular music in general was being over-run with synthy pop trivialities and bombastic stadium rock. Armed only with real instruments, a pile of obscure cover versions and new group originals that sounded like they should have been obscure covers, Barrence and the Savages didn't so much reinvent the wheel as remind everyone what was so good about it in the first place. Their rock-hard, white-hot shows won them plenty of fans. Almost 35 years later those fans are still with them and will be glad to replace their worn-out copies of the band's first two UK Rounder LPs with InchDig EverythingInch, a new Ace compilation which features both albums in their original formats, released for the first time ever on compact disc. Featured across this collection are many of the numbers most immediately identifiable with the band, including several such as 'Bloody Mary', 'Rockin' The Mule In Kansas' and 'Big Mamou' which can still be heard on most nights in any live set they play, anywhere around the world. Ace's previous Savages CD of their first, independently released album was responsible for Barrence and the group getting back together after a 20-year hiatus.

Scorching propulsive renditions of Ra! Garage & soul screamer Barrence Whitfield channels the Saturnian ruler of the omniverse with a soul-tripping exploration of Sun Ra favoritesfrom the explosive Nuclear War to the shimmering exotica of Love In Outer Space to the Funkadelicized \Everything Is Space. Since the 70s, lucky concert goers have witnessed the adrenaline mainlined madness that is a Barrence Whitfield performance. That brand of madness has been captured on hundreds of feet of magnetic tape and mutated into this studio recording over 25 years in the making-which somehow manages to be at times mellow, and at others completely explosive.