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OK ,But Check Out The Original Band First

JOHN SPOKUS | BALTIMORE, MARYLAND United States | 07/19/2000

(3 out of 5 stars)

"The Groundhogs in their original incarnation were the best heavy white boy blues rock band EVER ! What you have hear is (genius, virtuoso) guitarist Tony McPhee with some new sidemen, circa 1987, originally known as the Tony McPhee Blues Band, then switching over to the name Groundhogs. The bassist and drummer are totally inferior to the originals Cruickshank and Pustelnick. Although Tony can still wring the neck with best of them, many of these arrangements just simplify the tunes, probably because these sidemen didn't quite cut it, to pull the original sound off. "Mistreated" is almost unrecognizable from the great version on Blues Obituary."