THE DOUGHBOYS
''HOT BEAT STEW''
2015
49:55
1 Be My Baby 02:44
2 You Don't Even Know It 03:00
3 Don’t Come Crying to Me 02:36
4 Shake It Loose 03:32
5 Long Way Down 03:40
6 Soho Girl 02:51
7 You Can’t Catch Me 03:00
8 Crave 02:39
9 Heartache 02:52
10 For Your Love 03:05
11 Travelin’ Salesman 03:56
12 Biding My Time 03:29
13 Until Now 02:34
14 Gambler 03:16
15 Kamikaze 02:46
16 The Tears of a Clown 03:49
REVIEW
By Beverly Paterson, somethingelsereviews.com
Although countless great bands from the ’60s have reunited, only a small percentage have been able to replicate the initial spark. But the Doughboys have achieved such an accomplishment.
Since getting back together in 2000, the East Coast band has released five albums, including their latest Hot Beat Stew (RAM Records), which have all received rapturous responses. The group’s live gigs are also memorable events, directing them to be one of the very best rock and roll bands around today.
Because the Doughboys personally enjoy the kind of music they play and know their many fans love them just the way they are, they stay on course with the style that feeds their souls. Coming from the same rugged and raunchy mindset as bands like the Rolling Stones, the Pretty Things, the Shadows of Knight, and prime Aerosmith, the group churns out old school blues-stained rock, but a fresh and relevant dialogue supply their songs with a newborn touch.
Zipped tight with wild harp fills, driving drum patterns, bopping keyboards, and guitars that alternately moan, jangle, crunch, and soar with finesse, Hot Beat Stew is the quintessential garage rock album. Vocals barking, growling, and snarling with assertiveness conduct the rambunctious choir, giving the material a wholly convincing edge.
Aside from being remarkably focused and energetic musicians, the Doughboys are solid songwriters and stuff their throbbing tunes with throngs of angular hooks and bracing breaks.
“Don’t Come Crying To Me,” “Be My Baby,” “Travelin’ Salesman,” “Kamikaze,” “Long Way Down,” “You Don’t Even Know It,” and “Shake It Loose” signify the band’s forte for penning catchy songs and molding them into gutsy rockers that are short and to the point. For a spot of something different, there’s “SoHo Girl,” a paisley-trimmed pop nugget, and a groovy cover of “The Tears of a Clown” that was originally recorded by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
Composed of Myke Scavone, Gar Francis, Mike Caruso, and Richie Heyman, the Doughboys are the ultimate rock and roll band. They’re natural, exuberant, and have what it takes to communicate and convey both their talent and enthusiasm onto tape. In an age where not only gluten-free and low-fat food, but music of an akin caliber, is shoved down our throats, Hot Beat Stew is a nice exception. Meaty, tasty, and crammed with ear candy, the album doesn’t cut corners anywhere. Crank the volume as loud as possible and rock on!
ABOUT
By Official Website
Hungry? How about a little Hot Beat Stew, served up by The Doughboys??
Yes, soup’s on and The Doughboys are proud to present their fourth album, Hot Beat Stew, a delectable broth of sixteen sizzling tracks, sure to please the palates of true fans and connoisseurs of authentic rock’n’roll.
In the decade and a half since the band re-formed in 2000 (following a thirty-five year hiatus, after having reigned as one of the most popular bands in central Jersey in the mid 60’s), The Doughboys have released three albums (Is It Now?, Act Your Rage and Shakin’ Our Souls), numerous singles, and a documentary film with accompanying live disc (Rock N’ Raw). They’ve played up and down the eastern half of the country, often sharing bills with such luminaries as The Pretenders, The Yardbirds, The Electric Prunes, Roberta Flack, Robin Trower and many others. They performed at the historic “Who Shot Rock’n’Roll?” exhibition at the Allentown Museum, an all-star tribute to George Harrison at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, the “Long May You Run” benefit for at The Hamilton Live in Washington, DC, and have appeared at prestigious venues like B.B. King’s, the Sellersville Theater, the Stone Pony and the Starland Ballroom.
Their songs have become huge favorites on radio around the world, especially with Little Steven Van Zandt, who named Shakin’ Our Souls his favorite album of 2012, and who has bestowed the much sought after rank of “Coolest Song In The World” on seven of The Doughboys’ songs on his Underground Garage channel on Sirius/XM radio.
Fervent fans of The Doughboys know the whole history, detailed on the Rock N’ Raw DVD–they first got together in ‘63 and played in various permutations through the rest of the 60’s. They gigged incessantly, won a battle-of-the-bands on Zacherle’s Disc-o-Teen TV show, opened for every act imaginable including The Beach Boys, and released two 45’s, “Rhoda Mendelbaum” and “Everybody Knows My Name”, on Bell Records before splitting up for what they thought was for good. The band members went their separate and interesting ways – Myke Scavone fronted hard rock ensemble Ram Jam who scored an international hit with Black Betty; Richie Heyman played drums for the likes of Link Wray, Brian Wilson and Jonathan Richman while simultaneously pursuing an acclaimed career as a singer/songwriter (under his full moniker Richard X. Heyman); Mike Caruso landed session work, including a stint with Jimi Hendrix.
In 2000, Richie Heyman’s wife organized a surprise reunion of The Doughboys for his birthday that summer, which went so well that they stuck with it. Enter guitarist Gar Francis (of Stones tribute band Sticky Fingers fame, as well as work with Billy Idol and Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and The Raiders) in 2005 after the untimely passing of founding member and brilliant guitarist Willy Kirchofer.
Says renowned rock historian Hubs Goody in the Hot Beat Stew liner notes: “I swear to you, after seeing this band countless times, there are moments, many of them, when I am transported into what I call the ‘Doughboy Zone.’ It's a dizzy and happy place where all the craziness and woes of the world outside disappear and my body can't stay in one place for more than a second, and I feel the real power and magic of rock'n'roll.”
For this outing, Myke, Gar, Richie and Mike assembled at Spa Sound, the Edison, New Jersey studio of Steve “Stevie D.” DeAcutis, and got to work, self-producing dish after dish of instantly classic gems – the churning “Shake It Loose”, the swampy “Travelin’ Salesman”, the delicately seasoned “Soho Girl”, their garage-rockin’ take on the Smoky Robinson classic “Tears of a Clown”…and so many more - the menu goes on and on. Sample ‘em all and bon appetit!
BIOGRAPHY (WIKIPEDIA)
WEBSITE
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''HOT BEAT STEW''
2015
49:55
1 Be My Baby 02:44
2 You Don't Even Know It 03:00
3 Don’t Come Crying to Me 02:36
4 Shake It Loose 03:32
5 Long Way Down 03:40
6 Soho Girl 02:51
7 You Can’t Catch Me 03:00
8 Crave 02:39
9 Heartache 02:52
10 For Your Love 03:05
11 Travelin’ Salesman 03:56
12 Biding My Time 03:29
13 Until Now 02:34
14 Gambler 03:16
15 Kamikaze 02:46
16 The Tears of a Clown 03:49
REVIEW
By Beverly Paterson, somethingelsereviews.com
Although countless great bands from the ’60s have reunited, only a small percentage have been able to replicate the initial spark. But the Doughboys have achieved such an accomplishment.
Since getting back together in 2000, the East Coast band has released five albums, including their latest Hot Beat Stew (RAM Records), which have all received rapturous responses. The group’s live gigs are also memorable events, directing them to be one of the very best rock and roll bands around today.
Because the Doughboys personally enjoy the kind of music they play and know their many fans love them just the way they are, they stay on course with the style that feeds their souls. Coming from the same rugged and raunchy mindset as bands like the Rolling Stones, the Pretty Things, the Shadows of Knight, and prime Aerosmith, the group churns out old school blues-stained rock, but a fresh and relevant dialogue supply their songs with a newborn touch.
Zipped tight with wild harp fills, driving drum patterns, bopping keyboards, and guitars that alternately moan, jangle, crunch, and soar with finesse, Hot Beat Stew is the quintessential garage rock album. Vocals barking, growling, and snarling with assertiveness conduct the rambunctious choir, giving the material a wholly convincing edge.
Aside from being remarkably focused and energetic musicians, the Doughboys are solid songwriters and stuff their throbbing tunes with throngs of angular hooks and bracing breaks.
“Don’t Come Crying To Me,” “Be My Baby,” “Travelin’ Salesman,” “Kamikaze,” “Long Way Down,” “You Don’t Even Know It,” and “Shake It Loose” signify the band’s forte for penning catchy songs and molding them into gutsy rockers that are short and to the point. For a spot of something different, there’s “SoHo Girl,” a paisley-trimmed pop nugget, and a groovy cover of “The Tears of a Clown” that was originally recorded by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
Composed of Myke Scavone, Gar Francis, Mike Caruso, and Richie Heyman, the Doughboys are the ultimate rock and roll band. They’re natural, exuberant, and have what it takes to communicate and convey both their talent and enthusiasm onto tape. In an age where not only gluten-free and low-fat food, but music of an akin caliber, is shoved down our throats, Hot Beat Stew is a nice exception. Meaty, tasty, and crammed with ear candy, the album doesn’t cut corners anywhere. Crank the volume as loud as possible and rock on!
ABOUT
By Official Website
Hungry? How about a little Hot Beat Stew, served up by The Doughboys??
Yes, soup’s on and The Doughboys are proud to present their fourth album, Hot Beat Stew, a delectable broth of sixteen sizzling tracks, sure to please the palates of true fans and connoisseurs of authentic rock’n’roll.
In the decade and a half since the band re-formed in 2000 (following a thirty-five year hiatus, after having reigned as one of the most popular bands in central Jersey in the mid 60’s), The Doughboys have released three albums (Is It Now?, Act Your Rage and Shakin’ Our Souls), numerous singles, and a documentary film with accompanying live disc (Rock N’ Raw). They’ve played up and down the eastern half of the country, often sharing bills with such luminaries as The Pretenders, The Yardbirds, The Electric Prunes, Roberta Flack, Robin Trower and many others. They performed at the historic “Who Shot Rock’n’Roll?” exhibition at the Allentown Museum, an all-star tribute to George Harrison at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, the “Long May You Run” benefit for at The Hamilton Live in Washington, DC, and have appeared at prestigious venues like B.B. King’s, the Sellersville Theater, the Stone Pony and the Starland Ballroom.
Their songs have become huge favorites on radio around the world, especially with Little Steven Van Zandt, who named Shakin’ Our Souls his favorite album of 2012, and who has bestowed the much sought after rank of “Coolest Song In The World” on seven of The Doughboys’ songs on his Underground Garage channel on Sirius/XM radio.
Fervent fans of The Doughboys know the whole history, detailed on the Rock N’ Raw DVD–they first got together in ‘63 and played in various permutations through the rest of the 60’s. They gigged incessantly, won a battle-of-the-bands on Zacherle’s Disc-o-Teen TV show, opened for every act imaginable including The Beach Boys, and released two 45’s, “Rhoda Mendelbaum” and “Everybody Knows My Name”, on Bell Records before splitting up for what they thought was for good. The band members went their separate and interesting ways – Myke Scavone fronted hard rock ensemble Ram Jam who scored an international hit with Black Betty; Richie Heyman played drums for the likes of Link Wray, Brian Wilson and Jonathan Richman while simultaneously pursuing an acclaimed career as a singer/songwriter (under his full moniker Richard X. Heyman); Mike Caruso landed session work, including a stint with Jimi Hendrix.
In 2000, Richie Heyman’s wife organized a surprise reunion of The Doughboys for his birthday that summer, which went so well that they stuck with it. Enter guitarist Gar Francis (of Stones tribute band Sticky Fingers fame, as well as work with Billy Idol and Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and The Raiders) in 2005 after the untimely passing of founding member and brilliant guitarist Willy Kirchofer.
Says renowned rock historian Hubs Goody in the Hot Beat Stew liner notes: “I swear to you, after seeing this band countless times, there are moments, many of them, when I am transported into what I call the ‘Doughboy Zone.’ It's a dizzy and happy place where all the craziness and woes of the world outside disappear and my body can't stay in one place for more than a second, and I feel the real power and magic of rock'n'roll.”
For this outing, Myke, Gar, Richie and Mike assembled at Spa Sound, the Edison, New Jersey studio of Steve “Stevie D.” DeAcutis, and got to work, self-producing dish after dish of instantly classic gems – the churning “Shake It Loose”, the swampy “Travelin’ Salesman”, the delicately seasoned “Soho Girl”, their garage-rockin’ take on the Smoky Robinson classic “Tears of a Clown”…and so many more - the menu goes on and on. Sample ‘em all and bon appetit!
BIOGRAPHY (WIKIPEDIA)
WEBSITE
TO THE TOP
