Cut-for-cut, one of their best. This is rock that rolls. It’s boogie and fast-as-hell jump rhythms with distorted, twanged-out Chuck Berry and Link Wray riffs.
They’ve expanded their blues-punk sound, incorporating elements of Stax style funk, kletzmer, and country waltz ballads. The current champions of boogie.
I’m getting Travelling Wilberrys flashbacks here. Swag is a supergroup no one’s ever heard of, and that’s OK cuz it’s not like anyone here’s starving to death.
This is the strummy, sunny, swaying head harmony stuff that’s so impressive at free, bandshell concerts… but a little droopier when you get it home on CD.