High Life High Volume, by The Forty-Fives

High Life High Volume

by The Forty-Fives

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1.	Who Do You Think You Are? 03:12	buy track
2.	Go Ahead and Shout 02:56	buy track
3.	Bad Reputation 02:34	buy track
4.	Superpill 03:03 video	buy track
5.	Backstage at Juanita's 02:05	buy track
6.	Daddy Rolling Stone 03:23	buy track
7.	Junkfood Heaven 03:42	buy track
8.	Too Many Miles 04:36	buy track
9.	Bicycle Thief 02:27	buy track
10.	C'mon Now Love Me 03:48	buy track
11.	Stop at Nothing 04:21	buy track

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High Life High Volume is an early vote-getter for Best Album Title of the Year. But it's also the Forty-Fives' strongest statement yet. Like that old Mono Men stuff, or any of the trashy garage types associated with Memphis' Shangri-La Records, the Forty-Fives carry their influences in a beer koozie holster. But on cuts like "Who Do You Think You Are?," "Bad Reputation," and "Junkfood Heaven," the Atlanta quartet put enough of themselves in there to make it a whole new drink. Bryan Malone's vocals are as gritty as ever, and Trey Tidwell's keys are a constant highlight. The band gets all soulful and broken mannish with the Stones-style "Too Many Miles" (nice horn section!), and tosses out a great, loosey-goosey instrumental with the sax and keys-flavored "Backstage at Juanita's." Recording High Life with Jim Diamond in Detroit gave them access to the city's rockers, with Dirtbomb Mick Collins contributing some harmonica and Siren Deanne Iovan in a brassy duet with Malone on "Daddy Rolling Stone." "C'mon Now Love Me" is your standard bottle-shattering-against-chicken-wire rave-up, and "Bicycle Thief" is a mildly country slide guitar workout. It's a well-done, sonically varied album in a genre that too often sticks to what's drunk or unimaginative.

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released June 29, 2004

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The Forty-Fives Atlanta, Georgia

Road dogs that've toured with everyone from the Mooney Suzuki and D4 to The Supersuckers, The Forty-Fives are serious contenders for best live band on the rock-'n'roll/garage scene.

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