So before we do anything watch this and of course, make it loud:
Hooooooooly shit, right? That little slice of blues doesn't just rattle your ribcage, it stomps on your bones till there's nothing left but dust, and then sets the remains on fire just to make sure.
The two dark haired banshees in that video are Dexter Romweber (guitar and vocals) and Chris 'Crow' Smith (drums), better known as Flat Duo Jets. The blues duo, sadly long since disbanded, rocked the doors off of their hometown of Carrboro, North Carolina and the rest of the States through most of the 80s into the late 90s before going their separate ways.
In what should be counted as a crime against humanity, Crazy Hazy Kisses never appeared on any of the Flat Duo Jets records, it's sole appearance being in obscure music documentary Athens, G.A. (and later in Davis Guggenheim's It Might Get Loud). But what an appearance it is.
Dexter Romweber attacks his weathered Dan Electro with the fury of a hurricane; primal screams tearing out of him with such spine chilling power you can feel flecks of lung and bone battering your ear drums. Crow's drums, woefully under-mixed in that bootleg clip, still pack a wallop of boiling rills, rolls and spills. It's the kind of number that makes you want to dance, fuck and kill; preferably all at once.
Getting ahold of the track can be a bit tricky, but a bit of You Tube audio grabbing wizardry will get this gem into your hot little hands.
However you can. Get it. Now. And if anyone ever tells you that 50s style rock has no balls, play them this track, so it can kick them squarely in their own.
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