Classic Rock Start Page Album Review
JR Band - The Real McCoy
1. Break Away 4:20
2. Can't Blame The Boy 3:50
3aa. Money
3ab. Harlem Nocturne 9:07
4. Die Hard Crew 5:05
5. Deathroll 15:12
aaa. The Park
aab. Five Lonely Years
aac. Electric Chair Theme
aad. Flight 207
6. Finish What You've Started 5:24
7. The Loner 6:34
8. This Kind Of Life 3:51
© 2002 Mammoth Records
JR Band e-mail: jan@mammothproductions.com
JR Band website: www.jrband.com
Rock 'n' Roll that comes straight from the heart!
8 great songs on this album, some full of power, some full of emotion. The typical high, vibrating voice of Jan Rijbroek (he sang in the Elvin Bishop Band in the late 80's) fits extremely well with the melodic heavy music. Of course, the guitar is the #1-instrument (quote JR: "My guitar is a mature woman. I have to hear her scream and complain, when I manhandle her!"), but the Hammond is also nicely present. Keyboardsman Professor Frankenstein knows how to handle it. Together with Peter Cook (bass, ex Motors, Bram Tschaikovsky) and Edwin Spacemarine (drums, percussion) the JR Band is an experienced whole (an average of 160 gigs a year, throughout the world(!)).
Highlights on the album are: "Break Away", "Can't Blame The Boy" (great lyrics!), the 15 minutes dramatic "Deathroll" and "The Loner".
But most of all you've got to see them "ALIVE"! You won't be disappointed! The energetic show you see on stage, you can't hear on the album.
For JR Band-tourdetails go to their website.
Review by: Clemens Steenweg, April 2003