Honeysuckle Strange - 921
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Amazon.com "Why couldn't I ever get kicked out of school?" Howlin' Maggie leader Harold Chichester slyly asks on "Long Live Doug (Standing)," a funky-catchy workout from the band's debut album, Honeysuckle Strange. Practically tripping over his words, he concludes that "I wasn't good, but I wasn't bad enough." Chichester is former bassist for Royal Crescent Mob, a Columbus crew that outclassed its mates in the post-Chili Peppers race to run the term "funk metal" into the ground. His working-class smirk 'n' smarts are much in evidence here. In addition to "Long Live Doug," there's "$3.99," which might have been inspired by seeing most of the Mob's catalog remaindered in the wake of deals with Moving Target and Sire. With a hilarious vocal nod to Axl Rose, Chichester's street musicians proclaim themselves "well equipped for shit" over a crunching riff. Yet another work-related ditty, "Rubbing the Industry Raw," slaps another manager--the Mob's--whose "lack of results was difficult to understand." But while the implosion of Chichester's old group informs Honeysuckle Strange, this isn't the bitter statement of a cynical last-chancer. If anything, Howlin' Maggie's debut is one of the mid-'90s' most gleeful albums. -- Rickey WrightASIN: B000002BDV
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