Search - Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team :: When the OAKTEAM Comes To Town

If a flying saucer landed on our lawn tomorrow and the little green men asked, 'What's rock-and-roll?', we'd hand them this disc. Terry Anderson doesn't try to reinvent the music, he just distills it to its glorious essence - fast, loud and, above all, fun - and he does it with an uproarious, hick-happy brilliance.This live set serves up many of Anderson's greatest hits, or what should have been hits. Anderson can do straight-up and melodic in winning fashion - see the likes of Weather or Not and Sunday Dress. But most of the time the North Carolinian and his mighty OAKTeam are gleefully tearing up pea patches like Daddy Had a Wreck and I Feel a Drunk Comin' On. The influences are obvious - NRBQ, Faces, Chuck Berry, etc. - but it's also clear how smartly and colorfully Anderson twists them to create his own indelible rock-and-roll personality.