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Classic Album Review | Eddy (The Chief) Clearwater | Rock ’N’ Roll City Featuring Los Straitjackets

The head-dressed bluesman & the masked surf-rockers make a raucous tag-team.

This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


There are two kinds of people in this world:

1) Those who will get behind the idea of a Black man of Cherokee heritage playing raucous blues classics while wearing an Indigenous head-dress and being backed by a frantic surf band sporting Mexican wrestling masks; and 2) Those who will scratch their heads and wonder what the hell is going on. I suspect you already know where you fit it. And really, nothing I can say is going to change that. If you get it, then get this CD. If you don’t, just move along. There’s nothing for you here.