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- Artist: George Bedard & The Kingpins
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- Release Date: 1997
- Total Time: 44:27
- Type: Contains explicit content
- Genre: Rock
Review
As impressive as Bedard and the Kingpins' debut album was -- chock full of stylistic diversions, stellar playing and a tune selection that showed the band's wide musical palette to good advantage -- their sophomore effort broadens their horizons even further. Bedard's playing is a melting pot of T-Bone Walker blues, rockabilly, swing, jazz, country chicken pickin', '60s garage band chording, and the sleazier aspects of Chicago and Mississippi blues styles all whipped up into a most heady mix. Worthy covers come with scorching renditions of Elmore James' "Hawaiian Boogie," and a bop jazz tour de force on Red Prysock's "Zip" and the instrumental "William Tell '97." But Bedard's originals -- especially "Ball and Chain," the garage rocker "Dick Around," the bluesy "Quiet Mind," and the soulful "Lelia Ann" -- show tremendous growth as a songwriter, driving the band into new genre territory. With no sophomore jinx peeking out anywhere, Bedard and the Kingpins turn in that rarest of recorded entities: a second album that's actually better than their first. ~ Cub Koda, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Nightmare | George Bedard | (2:44) | |
| Gettin' Later | George Bedard | (4:06) | |
| Dick Around | George Bedard | (3:39) | |
| Zip | Red Prysock | (3:38) | |
| Seven Years | George Bedard | (4:30) | |
| Ball and Chain | George Bedard | (3:13) | |
| Hawaiian Boogie | Elmore James, |
(3:49) | |
| Lelia Ann | George Bedard | (3:35) | |
| Quiet Mind | George Bedard | (4:53) | |
| I Sure Don't Want To | George Bedard | (5:10) | |
| Heeby Jeebies | Michael James Jackson, John Marascalco | (2:55) | |
| William Tell '97 | Gioachino Rossini | (2:15) |
