1. Where’s Your Boyfriend At
2. All Dressed Up
3. Never Give An Inch
4. Right As Rain
5. Love Train
6. Hurtin’ Thing
7. Would It Kill You
8. Everything/Anything
9. Getting’ Drunk
10. Between You And Me
11. Fittin’ To Do
12. Roam
13. Over The Top
Total time: 48:30
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Put the Hammer Down
The Yayhoos
Lakeside Lounge
Sometimes an album is so good, the listener has to consult the booklet to see who’s playing what, track by track. Such is the case with “Put the Hammer Down” (don’t worry – it’s not a truck driving album), the second release from the Yayhoos.
Sporting a collective background spanning the Georgia Satellites (guitarist Dan Baird and bassist Keith Christopher) and the Del-Lords, Joan Jett’s Blackhearts and Steve Earle’s Dukes (guitarist Eric “Roscoe” Ambel), this foursome has some serious chemistry going for it.
Except for three excellent ballads (the Utopia-ish “Hurtin’ Thing,” the entrusting “Between You and Me” and the heartfelt “Over the Top”), “Hammer” is stunningly straightforward rock, with riffs aplenty, guitar solos that don’t waste time and a mission statement to have fun.
Baird, Ambel and drummer Terry Anderson rotate lead-vocal duties, and on “Everything/Anything” and the wonderfully unexpected cover of “Love Train,” everybody turns out for some of the best group vocals ever committed to disc.
If these guys aren’t careful, their side project might become a full-time endeavor.
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