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45 r.p.m.
© 2001 Black & White

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STYLE: Rhythm & Blues Rock-n-Roll

HOME TOWN: Providence, RI

Check out Black & White's CD: Hepcat

1. Mood To Get Rude
2. Catrina
3. Can't Win For Losing
4. Rhumba King
5. 45 R.P.M.
6. The Illicit Tale Of Jimmy D.
7. I Don't Feel So Good
8. 8-Track Comeback

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Issue #33                         Nov. / Dec. '01

Let's put everything that's been happening aside, for now let’s just concentrate on Rock-n-Roll. Pure Rock-n-Roll. Rhythm and Blues: the epitome of Rock-n-Roll, Rock-n-Roll’s birthright. Some say Rock-n-Roll is dead, lost with the innocence of a long ago time when R&B/R-n-R mirrored a youth culture that expressed their rebellion through music, and laid the foundation of seduction firmly within the coins dropped through the slot of the Wurlitzer playing the 45’s.

Rock-n-Roll is still alive. It may be referred to as jukebox music, and found in the cutout bins, but it is timeless. 45’s / singles / hot wax / 33&1/3’s / platters / LP’s / vinyl - it all perseveres on CD, and you can still feel the power of the needle dropping into the grooves. Yes it still grooves us, moves us, picks us up and spins us around and around – The turntable bumps and grinds us from the dance floor to the bedroom, the corner booth to the back alley. From Sun Records and Motown, Phil Spector, Stax/Volt and The Beatles. Most notably from Rock-n-Roll’s parents: The Rhythm and Blues sound fueled from the southern reaches of New Orleans with its Texas swing influence right on up to Chicago and its barroom shuffle/swagger. It’s all about the infectious feel and irresistible sexual allure...

…Like the sexual allure found on the cover of “45 r.p.m.” the new CD from Providence, RI’s Black & White. With a modern day sex goddess standing over a gramophone and a few scattered vinyl singles on the hard wood floor, it tells us everything we need to know, and this is before we’ve even unwrapped the disc!

Opening with “Mood To Get RudeBlack & White sets the mood with a shoulder shakin’ groove laced spontaneous sex / love song that establishes the ultra-smooth New Orleans style Tex-Mex feel which is carried through the Rhythm section of Don DiMuccio on Drums and Kevin Martin on Bass, and centered around the Blues Guitar and Vocals of Mark Wagner.

Sliding along, “Catrina” bursts out with a “Spy Hunter” themed bass and drums, spewing lust-filled lyrics intertwined with lead guitar bridges to die for! Fats Domino could’ve recorded “Can’t Win For Losing,” a lost love blues ballad that would wear out the needle in every jukebox across the heartland. And “Rhumba King” with it’s Island Swing will have you tilting your hat, extending your hand, and dancing the suave sophisticated mating ritual that would be right at home in the “Tropicana Club” as Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) swooned and crooned with his Orchestra.

It’s not hard to understand that Black & White have fashioned these original tunes by gathering the pure essence of what gave birth to a sound that moves our feet, our soul, our primal urges of joy and pleasure – The title track “45 R.P.M.” captures it all. Accomplishing something of a rarity by living up to the billing of the “Title,” this song fully expresses everything that is right about Rock-n-Roll, celebrating its birth, lamenting its journey through the ages, and reaffirming its power and glory.

Back in February of ’99 in a review of “Hepcat by Black & White we stated, “To heck with the current 'swing revival' Black & White is not a nostalgia act, they are the real deal.” Since then the “current” swing revival has all but disappeared, but Black & White still perseveres with that infectious feel and irresistible sexual allure, just like Rock-n-Roll…

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