Review: JD Simo And Luther Dickinson – Do The Rump!
JD Simo And Luther Dickinson – Do The Rump!
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital / Label: Forty Below Records
Release: 2024
Text: Pascal Wilhelm
And just as you think that it cannot get any raunchier than a T-Model Ford, Jon Spencer or GA-20 album there is Do the rump by JD Simo and Luther Dickinson.
The album is receiving critical acclaim already and got to #3 on the US Blues Albums Billboard. Eight songs on this record, recorded live at House of Grease, JD’s home studio in Nashville during a series of live-in-the-studio performances.
No overdubs, no tricks, just pure groove and energy. JD’s and Luther’s styles fit together quite easily, and I can see why this record has an impact; it is pure, in-your-face, reminiscent of artists on the Fat Possum label, but also has a modern twist.
I liked it immediately when I put it on (listen to that slide theme on Street People), but I am afraid that effect will wear of quite quickly with me. I don’t know exactly why, but I think it is a jam thing. When you enter a rehearsal room or bar and you hear a band doing Do The Rump, you will like it at first and think “Wauh, this is cool!” But then, after a while every grooving jam will get a bit boring, I am afraid (unless you’re stoned and start dancing).
I see this record as a “novelty.” New and fresh, but not fleshed out yet in my opinion.
The foundation is there, I hope some good songs will follow.
Tracks:
01. Street People
02. Right Down There
03. Lonesome Road
04. Come and Go With Me
05. Serves Me Right To Suffer
06. Do The Rump Louise
07. Come On
08. Peaches