The Blasters - The Blasters (1981) - VINYL - (sealed original press) - 24-bit/96kHz plus CD-compatible format

From allmusic: You might have thought the Blasters had been in suspended animation for 25 years when their major-label debut turned up in late 1981 sounding for all the world like something cut in the Sun Studios in Memphis in 1956. Dave Alvin knew all the licks and his brother Phil had the R&B/country wail down. Best of all, you couldn't tell the oldies from Dave's newly written classics. Welcome to the birth of rock & roll, all over again.

I found an original pressing of this, still sealed at Amoeba. See the pic.


Review by William Ruhlmann
You might have thought the Blasters had been in suspended animation for 25 years when their major-label debut turned up in late 1981 sounding for all the world like something cut in the Sun Studios in Memphis in 1956. Dave Alvin knew all the licks and his brother Phil had the R&B/country wail down. Best of all, you couldn't tell the oldies from Dave's newly written classics. Welcome to the birth of rock & roll, all over again.

Christgau:
Ex-Canned Heat piano man Gene Taylor and a horn section anchored by New Orleans's own Mr. Lee Allen wreck that neobilly image, as do the three reempowered remakes from their debut. Neobilly's just an excuse that lets them play blues–plus r&b, country, New Orleans, all the unfashionable vernaculars they love–to a young and hungry audience in a recharged dramatic context. If the originals work better than the covers, that's partly because Phil Alvin's expressive moan does sound pinched sometimes, so even when you don't know the source recording (which you probably don't), you can imagine it fuller. And it's partly because Dave Alvin is a songwriter with John Fogerty's bead on the wound-tight good times of America's tough white underbelly. A-




01 - Marie Marie.flac
02 - No Other Girl.flac
03 - I'm Shakin'.flac
04 - Border Radio.flac
05 - American Music.flac
06 - So Long Baby Goodbye.flac
07 - Hollywood Bed.flac
08 - Never No More Blues.flac
09 - This Is It.flac
10 - Highway 61.flac
11 - I Love You So.flac
12 - Stop The Clock.flac




No music was harmed in the making of this vinyl rip.