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Thirty years after they began their professional recording career, NRBQ was still rolling on, and in order to commemorate their anniversary they released another album called NRBQ -- which happens to be the title of their first album from 1969. More significantly for longtime Q fans, 1999's NRBQ is their first proper studio album (meaning, not a children's album or live album or reissue) in five years, since 1994's confused Message for the Mess Age. NRBQ does improve on that effort, largely because the band has gotten comfortable with Al Anderson's replacement, Johnny Spampinato, which makes it sound better than its predecessor; in retrospect, that record suffers from Anderson's desire to be elsewhere. Here, they hit upon a comfortable, earthy groove early on, and they ride it throughout the album. Sure, they get too cutesy -- "Puddin' Truck," "CM Pups," and "I Want My Mommy" being prime suspects -- but it wouldn't be a Q album without that. And it also wouldn't be a Q album if the musicianship wasn't so thoroughly impressive and rich that it makes up for the other flaws, whether it's cutesiness or underdeveloped material. At its core, NRBQ the 1999 version isn't much different than most of their studio LPs, but it's a solid and entertaining one, and considering that it arrives on their 30th anniversary, that alone is an accomplishment of sorts.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc..
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Steven Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer - Tim Bowness, ComposerLyricist - Ben Coleman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc..
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Terry Adams, Producer - NRBQ, MainArtist - Joey Spampinato, Producer
℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Album review
Thirty years after they began their professional recording career, NRBQ was still rolling on, and in order to commemorate their anniversary they released another album called NRBQ -- which happens to be the title of their first album from 1969. More significantly for longtime Q fans, 1999's NRBQ is their first proper studio album (meaning, not a children's album or live album or reissue) in five years, since 1994's confused Message for the Mess Age. NRBQ does improve on that effort, largely because the band has gotten comfortable with Al Anderson's replacement, Johnny Spampinato, which makes it sound better than its predecessor; in retrospect, that record suffers from Anderson's desire to be elsewhere. Here, they hit upon a comfortable, earthy groove early on, and they ride it throughout the album. Sure, they get too cutesy -- "Puddin' Truck," "CM Pups," and "I Want My Mommy" being prime suspects -- but it wouldn't be a Q album without that. And it also wouldn't be a Q album if the musicianship wasn't so thoroughly impressive and rich that it makes up for the other flaws, whether it's cutesiness or underdeveloped material. At its core, NRBQ the 1999 version isn't much different than most of their studio LPs, but it's a solid and entertaining one, and considering that it arrives on their 30th anniversary, that alone is an accomplishment of sorts.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:43:26
- Main artists: NRBQ
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rounder Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc. ℗ 1999 Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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