Shake It Or Leave ItRoy Loney & The Longshots Career CDS-1382 September 2007
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Jim Sangster - bass, guitars
Johnny Sangster - bass, guitar
Tad Hutchison- drums
Scott McCaughey- bass
Joey Kline - vocals, guitar
Graham Black - drums
Deniz Tek - guitar
Bobby Sutliff- guitar
Mark Pickerel - percussion
Ron Sanchez - guitar, tambourine, keyboards
Scott "Ringer" Sutherland - vocals
Micah Hulscher -Keyboards
Richard Mockler - organ
Barrie Russac- piano
Anna Kendall - oboe
Produced by Ron Sanchez and Jim Sangster
with Deniz Tek and Roy Loney
Recorded at Egg Studio by Conrad Uno
Audio Bardahl, Seattle by Johnny Sangster
Private Radio, Seattle by Pat Gray
Low Beat, Seattle by Jim Sangster
Skrang, Powell by Bobby Sutliff
Additional recordings and mix: God’s Little Ear Acre, Bozeman by Ronald Sanchez.
In 2007, Roy returned with one of his most solid and well produced discs since "Supersnazz"! It’s also the first album since Sneakers where Roy have written or co-written all tracks.
1. Baby Du Jour (Roy A. Loney – Larry Lea). This song with a riff like "People People" from "Out After Dark" opens this disc with a strong rhythm, which is reinforced with piano and percussion.
2. Big Time Love (Roy A. Loney). Another rocker in the best "Out After Dark" style!
3. The Great Divide (Roy A. Loney). A stunning fun and good ballad with nice organ.
4. Big Fat Nada (Roy A. Loney). In this song Roy goes Country & Western and he does it in a great style with great backing backing vocals.
5. Raw Deal (Roy A. Loney). This is one of the very best rockabilly songs Roy has ever done!
6. Danger Waves (Roy A. Loney – Larry Lea). This is a great collaboration with the Phantom Movers guitarist Larry Lea and a great 60’s style rocker.
7. Don’t Like Nothin’ (Roy A. Loney). The psychedelic fuzz guitar on this track is very 60’s and the riff is a bit lika “Headin’ For The Teaxas Border” Great!
8. Subterranean Waterfalls (Roy A. Loney).This is one more song with even more psychedelic influences with its slow hypnotic “Albatross” rhythm. A very fine tune again!
9. Hamlet’s Brother, Happy (Roy A. Loney). This is a very funny acoustic based song about Hamlet’s brother in Denmark. It has an oboe solo and could have been a track on Supersnazz!
10. Miss Val Dupree (Roy A. Loney). A great rocker with a nice 60’s organ.
11. Looking For The Body (Roy A. Loney). The tempo increases even more with this nice and very funny rocker.
12. Hey Now (Roy A. Loney). This fine rocker with a fine piano backing ends a great album.
This record is a masterpiece (again). It varies in style (which I think is good) and is very well produced. Of course I’ll give it 10/10 (again).