BLACKEYED SUSAN – Electric Rattlebone / Just A Taste (Unreleased) [Bad Reputation 2-CD remastered] (2019) *EXCLUSIVE*
Hard rockers BLACKEYED SUSAN were around between 1990 and 1992 releasing ‘Electric Rattlebone’ in 1991 on Mercury Records. Despite featuring Dean Davidson (Britny Fox) and Rick Criniti (Cinderella) they never really stood a chance as grunge was the big thing then.
That album, plus the previously self-released (few cassettes only) second recording from 1992 ‘Just A Taste’, were released by Bad Reputation Records, fully remastered.
The band’s debut album “Electric Rattlebone”, released almost a year to the day Davidson quit BRITNY FOX was produced by Randy Cantor. Taking their cue from the Seventies arena rock, BLACKEYED SUSAN travelled the bluesy hard rock path but had enough of their own originality to compete on a level playing field.
The style on “Electric Rattlebone” is classic US hard rock with a production sound so in vogue in the US around 1990-91: all pristine clear, melodic…
