Leather Jackets And Diesel Smoke: Chili Dippin’ In Red Tiger Shoes, Gems And Oddities From Lux And Ivy’s Vault Various Artists 2CD

• 50 fantastic tracks from the eclectic vault of The Cramps’ Lux And Ivy’s inspired record collecting.

• Featuring dishevelled acid folk, super sweet bubble gum pop, atmospheric oddball sounds, dark and brooding rhythms and a veritable hoard of rough, rare and ready rockabilly and rock ’n’ roll.

• Including photo garage blow outs, early R&B grooves and an overhead cam of hot rod tales alongside esoteric exotica and straight ahead novelty pop.

With madcap performances from Donnie James with the Mighty Joe Houston Orchestra, Tall Tonio And The Mello-Dees, Chris Christian And The Chordaires, Elisabeth Waldo, Fred Katz and John Reedy & His Stone Mountain Trio among many more; it’s a cavalcade of no-hit wonders, every last one of them a gem.

A host of mind altering conversation pieces that cover the waterfront of ‘Women In Cadillacs’ and ‘Hocus Pocus’ with the romantic love letter ‘Wet Back’, the super sweet ‘Candy Kisses & Bubbly Gum’, the lonesome croon of Mack Self’s ‘Everyday’ and the poignant ‘Trail Of Tears’ by the mysterious Willows.

A veritable head rush of what pop music should be, timeless nuggets as weird and wonderful it gets.

Remastered from the original sound sources with sleevenotes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1 – Conny and the Bellhops – Shot Rod
2 – Tyrone Schmidling – You’re Gone, I’m Left
3 – Pat Patterson – Rat-A-Ma-Cue (part 1)
4 – The Accidentals – Twangin Machine
5 – Dean Beard – Rakin’ And Scrapin’
6 – The Century Five – Red Tiger Shoes
7 – Chuck & Gary – Teenie Weenie Jeanie
8 – Pam Thum – The Devil’s Old Suitcase
9 – Gary Kane – The Fight
10 – Lightning Junior And The Empires – Somebody Changed The Lock
11 – Gene Hall – Monkey On The Moon
12 – The Blasts – Canaveral Rock
13 – Willows – Trail Of Tears
14 – Bonnie Guitar – Johnny Vagabond
15 – Linda Green – Honey Buggie
16 – Silver Belles with Herb Silver’s Orchestra – Candy Kisses & Bubbly Gum
17 – The Raiders – Hocus Pocus
18 – Mighty Joe Houston Orchestra – Walk Baby Walk
19 – Ray Burden – A Hot-Rodders Dream
20 – Tall Tonio And The Mello-Dees – Hot- Rod-Car
21 – Charlie Ryan – Hot Rod Race
22 – The Billy Williams Quartet – Busy Line
23 – Joyce Poynter – Chilli Dippin’ Baby
24 – The Sounds – Charlie Chan
25 – The Huntsmen – Big Bowl Of Soul
26 – Sweetie Jones – I’ve Been Wrong

DISC TWO
1 – Ronnie Pearson – Hot Shot
2 – John Worthan – The Cat’s Were Jumpin’
3 – William Cobbs – You Don’t Love Me
4 – Chris Christian And The Chordaires – Lover Boy
5 – Pat Patterson – Rat-A-Ma-Cue (part 2)
6 – James Gallagher – Ford & Shaker
7 – The Gamblers – Teen Machine
8 – Sandy Nelson – The City
9 – Don Ralke – Zooba
10 – Lada Edmund – Foxy
11 – Ritchie Adams – Pakistan
12 – Elisabeth Waldo – Incan Festival Dance
13 – Grupo Afro-Cubano – Bongosera
14 – Fred Katz – Foggy, Foggy Dew
15 – John Reedy & His Stone Mountain Trio – Oh Death
16 – Pearl Reaves & The Concords – I’m Not Ashamed (Ugly Woman)
17 – Pepper Pots – Leather Jacket Cowboy
18 – Doye O’Dell – Diesel Smoke
19 – Mike Page – Long Black Shiny Car
20 – The Night Riders – Women And Cadillacs
21 – Bill Flagg – Go Cat Go
22 – Hank Blackman And The Killers – Itchy Koo
23 – Mack Self – Everyday
24 – Vancie Flowers – Wet Back