FIVE HORSE JOHNSON
''Nº 6 DANCE''
APRIL 10 2001
56:39
1. Intro/0:19
2. Mississippi King/3:34
3. Spillin' Fire/3:10
4. Silver/4:42
5. Gods Of Demolition/3:59
6. Shine Around/4:16
7. It Ain't Easy/4:17
8. Hollerin' (US22K0402108)/4:07
9. Lollipop/4:29
10. Swallow The World/4:44
11. Buzzard Luck/3:41
12. Odella/14:24
13. Hidden Track/0:57
Mike Alonso /Drums, Percussion
Jimmy Bones /Organ (Hammond), Vocals (Background)
Brad Coffin /Guitar, Vox Organ
Phil Durr /Guitar
Eric Oblander /Harp
Kenny Olson /Guitar
Billy Reedy /Guitar
Steve Smith /Bass
Al Sutton /Vocals (Background)
REVIEW
by Charles Spano
They don't make them like this too often anymore. No. 6 Dance is American rock & roll from the heartland with Five Horse Johnson hopping a freight train and riding the rails from rootsy blues to acid rock to '70s guitar-band heaviness. The album takes Led Zeppelin's brand of psychedelic stoner tunes and puts them in a stars-and-stripes T-shirt. "Mississippi King" is a catchy jam that would have suited Skynyrd just fine. "Spillin' Fire" takes the old school harmonica blues and rocks out with them, and "It Ain't Easy" makes for a sweet, Southern, sun-drenched cover. "Gods of Demolition," the title that best befits Five Horse Johnson, showcases Brad Coffin's demon guitar and Eric Oblander's desert rocking, Kyuss-esque vocals. But the best song on the disc has got to be "Shine Around," a groovy, circular, Black Crowes-style jam with a singalong chorus -- a tune worthy of the smokiest middle-American teen bedrooms circa 1973.
BIOGRAPHY
by Charles Spano
Five Horse Johnson comes straight out of Toledo, OH, with big riff, get down, rootsy, middle American rock & roll that takes acid blues and Led Zeppelin and mixes in influences like the Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, and ZZ Top.
The band -- made up of Eric Oblander on harps and vocals, Brad Coffin on guitar, Steve Smith on bass, and Mike Alonso on drums -- got together in 1995 and began opening for acts like War, Southern Culture on the Skids, Atomic Bitchwax, the Queens of the Stone Age, and R.L. Burnside. In 1998, they released Double Down. The critically acclaimed Fat Black Pussycat followed in 1999 and The No. 6 Dance came out on Small Stone Records in 2001.
''Nº 6 DANCE''
APRIL 10 2001
56:39
1. Intro/0:19
2. Mississippi King/3:34
3. Spillin' Fire/3:10
4. Silver/4:42
5. Gods Of Demolition/3:59
6. Shine Around/4:16
7. It Ain't Easy/4:17
8. Hollerin' (US22K0402108)/4:07
9. Lollipop/4:29
10. Swallow The World/4:44
11. Buzzard Luck/3:41
12. Odella/14:24
13. Hidden Track/0:57
Mike Alonso /Drums, Percussion
Jimmy Bones /Organ (Hammond), Vocals (Background)
Brad Coffin /Guitar, Vox Organ
Phil Durr /Guitar
Eric Oblander /Harp
Kenny Olson /Guitar
Billy Reedy /Guitar
Steve Smith /Bass
Al Sutton /Vocals (Background)
REVIEW
by Charles Spano
They don't make them like this too often anymore. No. 6 Dance is American rock & roll from the heartland with Five Horse Johnson hopping a freight train and riding the rails from rootsy blues to acid rock to '70s guitar-band heaviness. The album takes Led Zeppelin's brand of psychedelic stoner tunes and puts them in a stars-and-stripes T-shirt. "Mississippi King" is a catchy jam that would have suited Skynyrd just fine. "Spillin' Fire" takes the old school harmonica blues and rocks out with them, and "It Ain't Easy" makes for a sweet, Southern, sun-drenched cover. "Gods of Demolition," the title that best befits Five Horse Johnson, showcases Brad Coffin's demon guitar and Eric Oblander's desert rocking, Kyuss-esque vocals. But the best song on the disc has got to be "Shine Around," a groovy, circular, Black Crowes-style jam with a singalong chorus -- a tune worthy of the smokiest middle-American teen bedrooms circa 1973.
BIOGRAPHY
by Charles Spano
Five Horse Johnson comes straight out of Toledo, OH, with big riff, get down, rootsy, middle American rock & roll that takes acid blues and Led Zeppelin and mixes in influences like the Black Crowes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, and ZZ Top.
The band -- made up of Eric Oblander on harps and vocals, Brad Coffin on guitar, Steve Smith on bass, and Mike Alonso on drums -- got together in 1995 and began opening for acts like War, Southern Culture on the Skids, Atomic Bitchwax, the Queens of the Stone Age, and R.L. Burnside. In 1998, they released Double Down. The critically acclaimed Fat Black Pussycat followed in 1999 and The No. 6 Dance came out on Small Stone Records in 2001.
