Status Quo – Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon (1970)
Vinyl rip @ 24/96 | FLAC | Artwork | 0.97Gb
Rock | Circa 1980 UK repress | Pye/PRT NSPL 18344
Woe betide the psychedelic groover who picked up the third album by Status Quo, dreaming of further picturesque matchstick messages! A mere three hits in a long three years had completely exhausted the band-members’ patience with the whimsy of yore, and their ears had long since turned in other directions. It was the age, after all, of Canned Heat’s relentless boogie and Black Sabbath’s blistered blues, and when the Quo’s first new single of 1970, the lazy throb of “Down the Dustpipe,” proved that the record-buying public wasn’t averse to a bit more down-home rocking, their future course was set. Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon allies one of the most evocative titles in rock album history to one of the most familiar sights in a rock band’s iconography, the cheap roadside café — crusty ketchup, leafy tea, an overflowing ashtray, and Ma Kelly herself, cigarette clenched between unsmiling lips and a face that has seen it all and didn’t like any of it. Neither do the album’s contents disturb her glowering visage. From the opening trundle of “Spinning Wheel Blues” and onto the closing, lurching medley of “Is It Really Me”/”Gotta Go Home,” the most underrated disc in Status Quo’s entire early catalogue eschewed the slightest nod in the direction of the band’s past — even “Dustpipe” didn’t make the cut. But six years on, when recording their live album, the Quo were still dipping back to “Junior’s Wailing,” the midpoint in the greasy spoon experience, and an expressively rocking archetype for all they would later accomplish. The dark shuffle of “Lazy Poker Blues,” too, unleashed spectres that the band would be referencing in future days, including the boogie piano that made 1974′s “Break the Rules” seem such a blast from the past. Compared to the albums that would follow, Ma Kelly is revealed as little more than a tentative blueprint for the Quo’s new direction. At the time, however, it was a spellbinding shock, perhaps the last one that the Quo ever delivered. You should remember that when you play it. Dave Thompson, Allmusic.
Track listing:
01. Spinning Wheel Blues
02. Daughter
03. Everything
04. Shy Fly
05. (April) Spring, Summer and Wednesdays
06. Junior’s Wailing
07. Lakky Lady
08. Need Your Love
09. Lazy Poker Blues
10. (a) Is It Really Me? (b) Gotta Go Home
Bonus:
11. In My Chair
(Pye single, 7N 46095)
Personnel:
Francis Rossi – guitar, vocals
Rick Parfitt – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Alan Lancaster – bass, guitar,
John Coghlan – drums
Roy Lynes – organ
Produced by John Schroeder
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