Tuesday, October 1, 2019

BETTER THAN BAGGING GROCERIES

The Rumblers aren't a very well known group. I don't think they had anything but a regional hit. They seem like the epitome of a faceless band whose sound you dig, but you don't know anything about them and you don't bother looking for a bio because, hey, they're just a faceless instrumental band whose sound you dig. My younger brother turned me onto them many years ago after he bought something of theirs totally at random, I forget if it was a 45 or LP. The song he pushed was "Boss". Neither of us knew that it had been their biggest regional hit years earlier, somewhere around 1962. None of the members was over 18. What they lacked in age and experience they made up for in just laying down the simplest and most solid shit. Not really surf, just kind of on the cusp. Instead of the reverb soaking, their sound is fuller, kind of menacing at times, and that sax, sometimes jiggle club dirty, enough so to belie the player's age. He was 17 at the time. That's Bob Jones, that's the sax player's name. Could it be more faceless? Bob Jones. Good sax player.

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Listen:
The Rumblers - Boss (streaming) at YouTube
The Rumblers - It's A Gas mp3
at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
The Rumblers - Night Scene mp3
at Internet Archive
The Rumblers - Here Comes the Bug mp3
at Internet Archive
The Rumblers - That's It mp3
at Internet Archive

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