December, 2007 Issue #61

Jack's Other Reviews "...a travelogue of Loney's fave 50's/60's styles. ...Loney is still good 'cause he keeps it simple and determined...."
bigtakeover.com

December, 2007

",,, it’s hard to find a poor track on this album."
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note from Career: Rob Forbes, the editor of Leicester Bangs was very helpful, supplying us with a load of UK contacts. They like the record too. Check their site out, and tell 'em we sent you.

1 December, 2007

"ROY LONEY’S 30 year involvement in rock n’ roll continues with this very aptly titled album, his third with Seattle-based all-stars THE LONGSHOTS. It’s a hare-lipped, feverish celebration of all the trance-inducing things that once instilled fear into our grandparents."
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18 November, 2007

"Woah, Roy's back with a solid smoker that could well be his most consistent album since "Out After Dark". "Shake It" runs a little over 36 minutes in total and leaves most collections I've heard recently in the dust. By the time we get to "The Great Divide", the patented jangle is hitting all the right spots...."
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October, 2007

No one here speaks Swedish, so we tell you much, but this great looking three page color spread seems to be discussing Roy's career. L-P Anderson made the pilgramage to Jack's Record Celler to talk to Roy in the summer of 2006. He was also asked to name three fave songs... which include the original version of Real Wild Child, and Mickey Hawk's Bip Bop Boom. The Sonically Speaking compilation CD that accompanies the mag includes Great Divide from Shake It Or Leave It.

November, 2007

"Roy Loney a la maniere de..." a song by song rundown of Shake It Or Leave It. Jukebox is an amazing bit of Frenchnessm Sylvie Vartan and Brenda Lee side by side, and endless album covers and pic sleeves to drool over.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

...His wit is still intact, though, and this record burns with his eclectic taste...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
"Whole Lotta Shakin" playlist

HEY NOW-ROY LONEY & THE LONGSHOTS(2007; SHAKE IT OR LEAVE IT CAREER)(8)
I KNEW THE BRIDE-DAVE EDMUNDS(1977)
BLOOD HOUND-DAN FRANK & THE TRUE BELIEVERS 2007; MYSPACE DEMOS II)(11)
STICK SHIFT-DUALS(1961)
DON'T DRAG NO MORE-SUSAN LYNN(1964)

Friday, October 12, 2007

Effigies.com (CriminalIQ.Com) “The full weight of failure”
Chip Hannah & the Berlin 3 (Acetate) “True Believers”
Jim Lauderdale (Yep roc) “Are you having second thoughts?”
Roy Loney & the Longshots (Career) “Looking for the body”
Praxis(ROIR) “Chopper” (LIVE 2004)
Gongzilla (Lolo) “Thrive”
Flower Kings (Inside Out) “Flight 999 brimstone air”

In another dimension far, far away, Roy Loney is a major star, a musician respected for both his seminal efforts and his continuing commitment to the cause. His tenure with the Flamin’ Groovies, a band that helped bridge the divide between ‘60s Brit rock and its retro revival, ought to have assured him enduring homage as a tireless champion of all things tagged rock ‘n’ roll...
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Roy Loney and the Longshots’ excellent new album Shake It or Leave It is a party waiting to happen, a trip through rock & roll history and a tragicomic tour de force.
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Monday, October 08, 2007

Flamin’ Groovies founder Roy Loney’s 30-year solo career continues with his third album fronting the Seattle supergroup, The Longshots, featuring most of Terrastock alum, Young Fresh Fellows (Jimmy Sangster, Tad Hutchison, Scott McCaughey, the latter also splitting time from his recent R.E.M. duties), along with label mate Joey Kline, front man of The Plaintiffs. Toss in a Windbreaker (Bobby Sutliff), another Plaintiff (Richard Mockler) and the considerable talents of Career co-honchos Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman) and Ron Sanchez (from Terrastock pros, Donovan’s Brain).....
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Free Form Radio Playlists

11:02 pm elvis is everywhere mojo nixon and skid roper bo-day-shus
11:00 pm raw deal roy loney and the longshots shake it or leave it career
10:58 pm great balls of fire georgia gibbs hot boppin' girls
10:55 pm whole lotta shakin' goin on roy hall diggin the boogie
10:50 pm voodoo doll amelia ultra chicks vol 4
10:48 pm voodoo voodoo lavern baker great googo mooga
10:45 pm voodoo blues jumpin joe williams okeh rhythm and blues

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
KJHK Playlists

05:44PM The White Stripes Icky Thump Icky Thump
05:44PM Forgein Born The Nights Tall On the Wing Now
05:34PM Brian WIlson Surf's Up Smile
05:34PM Music Alice Smith Dream For Lovers Dreamer and Me
05:25PM The New Pornographers My Rights Versus Yours Challengers
05:17PM Roy Loney and the Longshots Big Time Love Shake It or Leave It

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Joanie's Playlists

The Ruts Staring at the Rude Boys single Virgin
American Steel Old Croy Road Destroy the Future Fat
Cringer Despair The Big One comp FS
SSSP Dead and Gone For Life Koi
Roy Loney & the Longshots Don’t Like Nothin Shake It or Leave It Career
The Evaporators I’m Going to France/Nardwuar vs. Mikhael Gorbachev EP |Nardwuar

Even though Roy Loney parted company with the Flamin' Groovies in 1971 and his solo work has been sporadic ever since, the man remains a rock & roll howler of the first order...
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The Barman - This is such a varied and wild trip it's hard to work out where to begin. It's like Roy Loney's coalesced 45 years of rock and roll and squeezed it all into one focussed, beguiling, compelling and head-spinning cocktail. Shaken AND stirred...

Ken Shimamoto - .......In a just universe, Roy Loney would be at least as well known as Nick Lowe, which is to say, less famous than Sir Mick Jagger, but more famous than the guy in the pub at the end of the street. From the Flamin’ Groovies on up to the present, his music has been imbued with a playful sense of fun that the Rawk can always use more of. Bless him.

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