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This is one of the most important albums to come down the pike in long time. In its second week out, it’s already being played on 80 college radio stations across the country. Blues and rock legend Al Kooper just sent Howling Diablos band leader, lead singer and rhythm guitarist (on some tracks) Tino Gross a brief but telling e-mail. “Car Wash rules,” Kooper wrote. Tino told Big City Rhythm & Blues that this CD is an extension of the recording he produced for R.L. Burnside last year on the Fat Possum label. The one where he ingeniously blended hard driving Holly Springs-style Mississippi hill country blues with a modern hip-hop sensibility, in the process producing an instant modern classic. He was inspired so much by blues great R.L. Burnside that the ‘Car Wash’ project just had to be. With this recording the Howling Diablos, long considered to be more of a rock and funk band than a blues outfit, show the world that the hardest rocking music in the world is the Mississippi hill country blues of artists like R.L. Burnside and the late Junior Kimbrough. Revitalized with two new and wildly talented band members both in their 20s, Mike Smith on guitar and drummer Shannon Boone, Diablo veterans Johnny Evans on harp and sax, Dr. Mo Hollis on electric bass, and general ringleader and front man Tino Gross now emerge as one hell of an on fire five piece ensemble about to break out big time on the strength of this explosive new recording.
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