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Status Quo - Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon (1970)
Artist - Status Quo Album - Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon Genre-
rock Year- 1970 format-eac/ape
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Woe betide the psychedelic groover who picked up the third album
by Status Quo, dreaming of further picturesque matchstick messages! A
mere three hits in a long three years had completely exhausted the
bandmembers' patience with the whimsy of yore, and their ears had long
since turned in other directions. It was the age, after all, of Canned
Heat's relentless boogie and Black Sabbath's blistered blues, and when
the Quo's first new single of 1970, the lazy throb of "Down the
Dustpipe," proved that the record-buying public wasn't averse to a bit
more down-home rocking, their future course was set. Ma Kelly's Greasy
Spoon allies one of the most evocative titles in rock album history to
one of the most familiar sights in a rock band's iconography, the cheap
roadside café -- crusty ketchup, leafy tea, an overflowing ashtray, and
Ma Kelly herself, cigarette clenched between unsmiling lips and a face
that has seen it all and didn't like any of it. Neither do the album's
contents disturb her glowering visage. From the opening trundle of
"Spinning Wheel Blues" and onto the closing, lurching medley of "Is It
Really Me"/"Gotta Go Home," the most underrated disc in Status Quo's
entire early catalog eschewed the slightest nod in the direction of the
band's past -- even "Dustpipe" didn't make the cut. (It has since been
incorporated among the four bonus tracks appending the album's 1998
remastering as have "In My Chair", "Gerdundula" and an alternate version
of "Junior's Wailing") But six years on, when recording their live
album, the Quo were still dipping back to "Junior's Wailing," the
midpoint in the greasy spoon experience, and an expressively rocking
archetype for all they would later accomplish. The dark shuffle of "Lazy
Poker Blues," too, unleashed specters that the band would be
referencing in future days, including the boogie piano that made 1974's
"Break the Rules" seem such a blast from the past. Compared to the
albums that would follow, Ma Kelly is revealed as little more than a
tentative blueprint for the Quo's new direction. At the time, however,
it was a spellbinding shock, perhaps the last one that the Quo ever
delivered. You should remember that when you play it.
01. Spinning Wheels Blues [0:03:20.48] 02. Daughter
[0:03:01.48] 03. Everything [0:02:38.48] 04. Shy Fly
[0:03:49.48] 05. (April) Spring, Summer and Wednesdays [0:04:13.48]
06. Junior's Wailing [0:03:34.48] 07. Lakky Lady [0:03:16.48]
08. Need Your Love [0:04:46.48] 09. Lazy Poker Blues
[0:03:34.48] 10. a) Is It Really Me b) Gotta Go Home [0:09:31.48]
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