I don’t know, man. I kinda dig The BellRays and The Detroit Cobras and Nagg, you know, all the badass rock n’ soul bands that got them foxy howlers up front and center, right where they ought to be, seducing you with their snaky charms and bitchin’ babe-vado. Of course, I’ve always been a sucker for any chick that remotely resembles Janis Joplin, be it in voice or spirit, but I’m also a sucker for some goddamn garage rock, like The Wipers or The Oblivions or Reigning Sound. Cue the DT’s, Washington’s own Al Green inspired kings (and queen) of classic cuts and cocksure struts. Led by the aforementioned fox, Diana Young-Blanchard, and Estrus Records main man Dave Crider on guitar (the Ike to Diana’s Tina, if you will), The DT’s offer a half hour’s worth of hard soul covers on Nice ‘N’ Ruff, from The Artistics (“The Price of Love”) to CCR (“Pagan Baby”) to AC/DC (“What’s Next to the Moon”) to Roky Erikson (“Don’t Slander Me”) to, well…Al Green and Janis Joplin, natch. There are 10 covers in all, each one of ‘em pretty fuckin’ ballsy (they’d have to be if you’re offering no original material on only your second full length album) and uniquely DT’s (again, they’d have to be), which means you should be shakin’, rattlin’, and rollin’ whatever you can, brothers and sisters. Wherever you can, even. Preferably on a grandstand somewhere, but that’s entirely up to you.
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- Jeff Warren