Consumer Guide Album

Royal Crescent Mob: Something New, Old and Borrowed [Moving Target, 1988]
The borrowed is the largely legendary Land of Sugar, now available only as a Play It Again Sam import. The new is a Richard Gottehrer-produced single, half generic white funk, half sui generis garage pop. The old is five cuts "live at the fair," though just exactly which fair is left unspecified. I smell a ringer right down to the wild cheers for the James Brown cover and the cries of "You suck," though the Led Zep cover and the vamp-with-intro about corn dogs and heat-vs.-humidity certainly do the concept proud. B+