Sometimes looks can deceive -- the picture of the Stoltz Brothers band makes them out to be the dorkiest would-be rock & rollers this side of the Schmenge Brothers, but their title track to this collection is a hot piece of rock & roll, straight-ahead, no holds barred and no quarter given. Most of the rest is like that as well, from Alan Barnicoat ("Savage") to the Rhythm Tones ("Baby Sue"), the
String Kings ("Bloodshot"), and the Wynnewoods ("Is That Wrong"). Most of the material here was part of rock & roll's post-first-wave boom, meaning Elvis and
Jerry Lee Lewis are really influential, and there are references made to the Memphis Flash in some of the lyrics; rockabilly is strongly in evidence as well, even though most of the artists here try for a fuller, more mainstream, commercial rock & roll sound, less southern and rural.