Stray Cats: Gonna Ball

With Johnny Burnette‘s ‘Baby Blue Eyes’ this album has a killer opening track and is the beginning of over 35 minutes of red hot rockabilly ‘n roll. Looking back nowadays on 1981’s Gonna Ball”, it seems like a minor masterpiece and probably the Stray Cats’ finest album. The Cats are captured diggin’ deep into early rock -amp; roll and even pre-rock -amp; roll roots music and far beyond the boundaries of rockabilly, served the Brian Setzer/Stray Cats way. Supported by various players, including Rolling Stones alumnus Ian Stewart, John Locke (Spirit/Nazareth) and on the saxophone there’s New Orleans tenor legend Lee Allen (Fats Domino/Little Richard). The album ends with ‘Crazy Mixed Up Kids’, a psychobilly instrumental workout par excellence. 1 Baby Blue Eyes 2 Little Miss Prissy 3 Wasn’t That Good 4 Crying Shame 5 (She’ll Stay Just) One More Day 6 You Don’t Believe Me 7 Gonna Ball 8 Wicked Whisky 9 Rev It Up And Go 10 Lonely Summer Nights 11 Crazy Mixed Up Kid