ROADSAW: Rawk N’ Roll CD cool dirty Hard Rock / Stoner. RARE 1 st, original press (LunaSound 2002). Check audio.

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RARE released through tiny independent Luna Sound in 2002
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Release Date: January 22, 2002
Total Time: 54:39
Type: Contains explicit content

TRACKLIST:
Right On Through
Bad Ass Rising
Disconnected
Scorpion Bowl
Foot
Your Own Private Slice Of Hell
The Finger

That’s Mr. Motherfucker To You
Buried Alive
Blackout Driver
Burnout
Hoof
Untitled (9 minute!) Hidden Track

For fans of stoner rock, Kyuss, Orange Goblin, Halfway to Gone, Small Stone Records, Queens of the Stone Age, Unida, Sloburn, Mastodon, Clutch, Karma to Burn, Soundgarden,

5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Stormer,
I saw this band in the UK a few years ago supporting Orange Goblin and they were promoting this album at the time. They were excellent live and I dashed out to buy the album.

And what an album it is. Packed full of quality heavy rock with a groove guaranteed to have you rocking out within seconds of the opening bars. Tracks such as “Right On Through”, “The Finger” and “Dead Or Alive” have riffs that stomp all over you like a heard of elephants whilst the slower “Your Own Private Slice Of Hell” smoulders with a heavy blues feel that oozes class.

There are no fillers on this. It simply rocks from start to finish. For fans of Corrosion Of Conformity, Orange Goblin, Down, AC/DC, Blackfoot and newer classic rockers such as Black Stone Cherry this is a must.

SAMPLES:  http://www.allmusic.com/album/rawk-n-roll-mw0000227335

Back in the days when the earth was flannel, metal had gone ‘nu,’ and stoner rock was young (i.e. the late ’90s), Boston quartet Roadsaw regularly found themselves mentioned alongside charter groups like Nebula and Fu Manchu when discussions of the burgeoning genre were had. But even though they had unleashed their debut album, Nationwide, in the midst of that movements biggest surge of popularity, Roadsaw were really disciples of a much more timeless, clique-less school of stripped down hard rock (no space flights for these cats). Hence the informative title of their sophomore record, Rawk n’ Roll, which sadly vanished without a trace after being released through tiny independent Luna Sound, in 2002, but was deservingly reissued by Small Stone five years later. But whether you’re listening to it in ’02, ’07, or, by some miracle of time travel, 1977, chances are you’ll find Roadsaw’s universal brand of heavy blues rock perfectly ‘contemporary’ with that of ’70s icons like the James Gang, Ted Nugent, or hometown heroes Aerosmith. Montrose is another band that comes immediately to mind (think “Bad Motor Scooter”), while listening to Roadsaw specialities like “Right on Through,” “Bad Ass Rising,” “The Finger” and “Buried Alive,” whose riffs actually sound like a stock cars motor revving. Elsewhere, guitarist Ian Ross pulls out all the stops for some truly sizzling guitar work on the Atomic Bitchwax-like “Disconnected,” drummer Hari Hassin inserts a half-backwards drum solo into “Blackout Driver,” and guest organist Eric Welsh adds another dimension to Hammond-ized cuts like “Foot” and the Doors-ish instrumental “Thats Mr. Motherf**ker to You.” Finally, and definitely worth mentioning is the vocal elasticity of front-man Craig Riggs, whose soulful grit holds down center stage with confidence throughout, but really proves its mettle when isolated for the one-off blues ballad “Your Own Private Slice of Hell.” In sum, its somewhat understandable that Roadsaws bare-bones Rawk n’ Roll would be rather overlooked amidst the stoner rock scenes flashier competition, but as time goes on, that simplicity increasingly spares them from being dated along with it, and many of their peers.

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Roadsaws classic “Rawk N’ Roll” album provided some serious quality control back in the olden golden stoner/ desert/ whatever decade (1992-2002), enough so that I was compelled to buy this very album on double ellpee vinyl back in the day. So Small Stones preaching to the converted on this one. Which is what you should be. Converted, that is. Because, along with better-knowns like Nebula and Bitchwax, Roadsaw was blessed with the talent, tone, and songwriting ability that built the hard-rockin’ riff metal underground in the 1990s. Roadsaw was rife with energy, groove, smooooth fuzz, and riffs, riffs, riffs. Yeah man, this is what underground FM radio might have supported, had it come out in the bygone pre-1972 days, and its no coincidence that Roadsaw sounds right at home in your CD carousel along with Mountain and the James Gang. And they’re not afraid to throw in the odd dollop of doom as well. Some say that Roadsaw called it quits at just the right time, but I’ve always felt that they left a void that nobody could ever quite fill. Hey, I’m a big fan of such post saw bands as the Southern-tinged Antler and even the decadent post-glam cock rock of Quitter. But that feeling of loss was still out there, drifting in the void, until the unexpected return of the band with their stellar cover of Zeps “When the Levee Breaks,” one of the absolute highlights of the second “Sucking the 70s” compilation.

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“You wont find any fancy studio trickery on this album… just Rawk N´ Roll, no more, no less… You might have heard a groove similar to the groove in tunes like Right On Through from other genre bands, it ain’t nothing fancy, but it rocks like a mutha when you have mastered that perfect groove like Roadsaw has done…

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RARE released through tiny independent Luna Sound in 2002
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