Nick Curran and The Lowlifes - Reform School Girl

This record surely captures everything that made the kids go crazy fifty years ago. The great critic Greil Marcus once described Bruce Springsteen's song "Born to Run" as a "'57 Chevy running on melted down Crystals records," and there's a similar sound at work on Curran's album. Any one of these fourteen tracks could have been a hit single in the early days of rock 'n roll, and would have sounded fabulous blasting out over a cheap transistor radio. "Reform School Girl" is also the first killer party record of 2010, homage to the old-school style of sticking a disc in the player and letting it roll all night long. A squeeze of Otis Rush, a touch of Elmore James and a pinch of Jerry Lee Lewis.