Burning Sensation!

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#		Title	Length
1		Thinking with the wrong head	4:43	Play
2		Louise	5:20	Play
3		One more mile	5:30	Play
4		It's the one	4:05	Play
5		Stop breakin' my heart	3:35	Play
6		misery(loves company)	4:16	Play
7		Skyliner	3:07	Play
8		Wooden nickel	3:04	Play
9		The girl that radiates that charm	5:54	Play
10		Uncle Walter	4:51	Play
11		The world's on fire	7:15	Play
12		Sparerib Rock	4:26	Play

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You are probably reading this because you have at least a passing interest in the CD "Burning Sensation!", the fourth full-length CD by Barbecue Bob & the Spareribs. It's much more than just another record release to me, as the songs and performances of them are a product of a 25 year musical friendship with Simon Chardiet(Jon Spencer, the Slackers, Rancid, Flat Duo Jets, Joey Miserable & the Worms, Simon & the bar sinisters), who shares songwriting credits, plays upright bass, and of course his inimitable guitar stylings. I am also proud to have New Orleans drummer/percussionist Charles Otis(Dixie Cups, John Hammond, & too many more to mention)playing on this recording. My friendship and musical history also goes back many years with Johnny Katonah(fender bass) and Glenn Healy(drums). J.J.Murphy(drums) plays the songs as if we grew up playing together(we didn't).So that's it.. this record is musicians really having a ball playing together, and i hope this burning sensation is contagious!

thanks and read further for liner notes:

1)Thinkin' with the wrong head
bob(guitar,vox)simon(lead guitar)johnny(fender bass)
JJ(drums)
Simon tells me he wrote this song for me to sing when we were playing together in the early 90's. He ended up recording it for his own record "Surf Ave.(Rounder records)

2)Louise
Bob(guitar,vox)Simon(upright bass)JJ(drums)
I can't quite put my finger on when I first heard this song(it may have been a red lightnin' release of Big Walter and Robert Nighthawk, or John Lee Hooker, or Lightnin' Hopkins)Apon researching it for proper attribution on this CD, I found it's origins fairly murky at best and "trad." is how it stands.

3)One more mile
Bob(Guitar,vox,harmonica)Simon(upright bass,lead guitar)JJ(drums)Charles(percussion)
Country blues murder shuffle inspired by Lazy Lester, Jimmy Reed, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.Apon hearing the playback Charles said "the only thing missing is the fish fry".

4)It's the one
(same personnel as #3)
A philosophical song about good intentions and the vagaries of fate. It lopes along like JJ Cale/exile on main st.

5)Stop Breakin' my heart
Bob(vox, harmonica)Simon(guitar)Johnny(fender bass)Glenn Healy(drums)
A Leiber/Stoller inspired tune about love and life and some karma.

6)Misery loves Company
Bob(guitar,vox)Simon(lead guitar,upright)JJ(drums)
Country weeper(apologies to Porter Wagoner, who has an
unrelated song by the same name)

7)Skyliner
Bob(guitar)Simon(upright bass, slide guitar)JJ(drums)
Charles(percussion
File under "Raucous instumentals" Should be played really loud during barroom brawls!
(it's like hound dog taylor jamming with link wray)

8)Wooden Nickel
Bob(guitar,vox)Simon(lead guitar,upright bass)JJ(drums)
Rockabilly, y'all!

9)The girl that radiates that charm
(same personnel as #8)
An Arthur Alexander gem,suggested to me by blues dj,music author Ashley Kahn back in'81 or so...

10)Uncle Walter(instumental)
Bob(Harmonica)Simon(guitar)Johnny(fender bass)JJ(drums)
A tribute to harmonica giants "Big Walter" Horton and "Little Walter" Jacobs. Done nice and greasy.

11)The world's on fire
Bob(guitar,vox,harmonica)Simon(upright bass,slide guitar) JJ(drums)Charles(percussion)
Suggested by Charles(he played on the original with Bill Dicey)Bill gave the ribs their first professional leg up with a year's worth of gigs at Dan Lynch's blues bar around 1981. We miss you Bill, and I hope you dig this version.

12)Sparerib Rock
Bob(hamonica,vox)Simon(guitar,bkgrnd vox)Johnny(fender bass)
JJ(drums)
Simon's paean to life as a sparerib(in a Joe Houston kind of way)a song of very few words.


Band Bio

The first Barbecue Bob & the Spareribs show took place at the Furnald Folk Festival at Columbia University in 1981, followed by shows at the Postcrypt coffee house. A long residency at Dan Lynchs blues bar (booked by blues artist Bill Dicey) followed. Looking for a neighborhood bar, the band settled in at the Blue Rose Lounge at 106th St. & Broadway (NYC). Bob stocked the jukebox with his favorites and began booking acts as diverse as The Holmes Brothers, The Raunch Hands, Bobby Radcliff, and The Dogmatics (from Boston). During this period, the band released two 45s on their own label, Rib records, (Linda Lu b/w Shake Your Money Maker and My Barbecue Baby b/w Oedipus Rex), acquired drummer/pianist Howie Wyeth, and began a series of shows opening for national acts at the original Lone Star Caf (13th & 5th Ave. NYC). The Spareribs were still playing the Blue Rose and Dan Lynchs, and had expanded to Philadelphia, doing frequent shows at Takers Caf (Germantown) and Bacchanal (13th & South St.). The Ribs released two full-length cassettes (The Best So Far, and Shut up and Play) and began a long relationship with the Rodeo Bar (27th & 3rd Ave. NYC) around 1987.



The Spareribs had by this time begun playing in New Jersey clubs such as Wallaces (East Orange), Tierneys (Montclair), and opening for nationally touring acts at the Stanhope House (Stanhope). Two more full-length cassettes followed (Four on the Floor, with Simon Chardiet on guitar, and Wages of Sin, with Dan Hovey and Ira Spinrad on guitars).

At this point the Spareribs inked up (in blood) with DaDa Records, a D.I.Y. label, releasing two 7mono records Snack Time(96) and Side Order (97) .


They included the A sides on their first full-length CD After School Special, and have been touring the South and Midwest in support of these releases, building a small but loyal following as far as Chicago and New Orleans.

With their second CD Pass the Biscuits!, Barbecue Bob and the Spareribs were poised to conquer the world, or at the very least, make it to California (and all points in between).

A Brief list of musicians over the years(recorded and otherwise)

Guitar:
Kevin Trainor
Jack Petruzzelli
Ira Spinrad
Simon Chardiet
Bobby Radcliff
Dan Hovey
Bill Thompson
Steve Antonakos

Bass:
Brian Miller
Jay Elfenbein
Mark Ettinger
Tom Diello
Dominick Zarillo
Johnny Katonah
Scott Kitchen
Craig Robison
Ron Tullier
Keith Christopher
Dan Baird
Dave Dreiwitz

Drums:
Dave Capello
Howie Wyeth
Charles Otis
Scott Byrne
Ira Kay
Dave Ross
Glenn Healy
JJ Murphy
Nick Ruggieri

more to follow, i'm sure and sorry if i missed someone...