Black Oak Arkansas, [I]The Complete Raunch 'N' Roll Live[/I]

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Black Oak Arkansas - The Complete Raunch 'N' Roll Live

Drawing its name from the little town this six-piece called home, Black Oak Arkansas was one of the hottest Southern rock bands of the 1970s. Offering a potent blend of boogie and metal, BOA cut two albums a year for most of the decade, but it was on the concert trail that the group really made its mark. As irrepressible frontman “Jim Dandy” Mangrum recalls, “It was amazing we went as far as we did. And it was because of our live show.”

The new collection The Complete Raunch 'N' Roll Live is an unadulterated dose of these hillbilly hard rockers doing what they did best - riling up an audience. Recorded on December 1st and 2nd, 1972 at Paramount Theaters in Portland and Seattle (different venues with the same name), these performances were the basis for the band's Raunch 'N' Roll Live LP released a couple months later. Consisting of seven songs from the two evenings, that original album is considered by many to be Black Oak's finest hour. The Rhino Handmade set presents both concerts in their ass-kicking entirety.

The 24 tracks on this double-CD include such fan favorites as “Hot & Nasty,” “Gettin' Kinda Cocky,” and the epic “When Electricity Came To Arkansas,” as well as a psychedelic a capella version of “Dixie” and the black gospel-takes-acid trip workout “Lord Have Mercy On My Soul” -- the sort of things you'd only hear at a BOA gig. Featuring remastered sound, numerous photos, and colorful recollections from guitarist Rick Reynolds and Mangrum (whose blond locks, garrulous raps, and bare-chested strut make him a forerunner of David Lee Roth), The Complete Raunch 'N' Roll Live captures Black Oak Arkansas in all its hell-raising glory.

The Complete Raunch 'N' Roll Live is available for $29.98 as an individually numbered limited edition of 5,000 copies. Get it now at:
www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=7732

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― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

Whatevs at thread title.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

That Buck Owens set looks nice, too.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

I've never listened to Black Oak Arkansas, but those two Rhino Handmade Cactus sets get a possibly distressing amount of play in my iPod. So should I buy this here thing?

― unperson, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

i always wanted to hear fanny and the stalk-forrest stuff too...

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno Phil. Black Oak's finest hour was the single live LP, mostly for Jim Dandy's crazed raps. As far as playing goes, BOA were subpar. The studio albums are putrid. They had another finest hour with the old blues holler, Go Jim Dandy. Trivia note:A very young Tommy Aldridge was BOA's drummer for this set. The Cactus things have value because that band was all about high energy boogie jam.

I'd probably get the Fanny thing if I saw it at Amoeba and it wasn't too dear. However, I have the old Reprise vinyl and Fanny's potential was always much more than what the album's delivered. They're tame and poppy, rough edges pretty much sanded off and suffered for it. It's pleasant early classic rock but not stunning. Reading about Fanny is a better experience than listening to them.

― Gorge, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

george crazy wrong about BOA, at least the first studio albums.

nice. but why the fuck is it $30 other than "because we can?"

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 15 March 2007 05:06 (eighteen years ago)

that should be "that set looks nice"

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 15 March 2007 05:06 (eighteen years ago)

i love that wham bam thank ya maam song

― chaki, Thursday, 15 March 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

TS: BOA's "Jim Dandy" vs. ZZ Top's trashed-out "Jailhouse Rock"

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 15 March 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I have two songs by BOA - Jim Dandy and Hot n Nasty. What full-length albums are worth gettin?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 21 November 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)

http://i37.tinypic.com/2ef4aqq.jpg
(that was the first one i got, at least.)

"jim dandy" is on high on the hog, not my favorite but you might check that out. i prefer the first three (s-t/keep the faith/if an angel came to see you) but they're not entirely good-time shit, high on the hog is a little more in that direction.

― wind and wtfering (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 22 November 2008 04:17 (seventeen years ago)

they're a pretty easy band to get into on the cheap.

― wind and wtfering (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 22 November 2008 04:18 (seventeen years ago)

The BOA Definitive Rock Collection 2CD set has everything I need. I like these guys a lot; Mangrum seems to have taken Captain Beefheart's Howlin' Wolf imitation and made something commercially viable out of it. A nice trick.

― unperson, Saturday, 22 November 2008 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

They charted briefly with a single that rings a bell for a lot who were around at the time, "Jim Dandy (To the Rescue)," which was a LaVerne Baker cover. The first live album with Jim Dandy's shtick on full display are an obvious place to start, particularly for the raps preceding "Hot Rod" and "When Electricity Came to Arkansas." BOA were on late night Friday concert TV quite a bit, too, which gave them an audience nationwide.

Past High on the Hog they were pretty much toast. The second live album is startling in how poorly it compares with Raunch 'n' Roll.

― Gorge, Saturday, 22 November 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

What is it with bands with places in their name and that pose?

http://platial.com/img/2007/04/3/honey_ohio_players.jpg

I guess Kansas and Boston at least restrained themselves.

― ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 22 November 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

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