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Newest Review: ... are hard to come by, one of those that I had the pleasure tolisten to recently was an album called "Roberta" by the ... more

 ... Workdogs. Workdogs never had a big following and most of their fans were members of other New York rock bands. A constantly rotating line-up and the band's style of sloppy rocky drugged out blues made it hard for any record label to take them seriously but the songs that are recorded are true gems, vocally the band sound a bit like Lou Reed on his Transformer album, lyrically the band are old school blues and the music is sounds like a combination of blues, Jimi Hendrix and The New York Dolls. The band have done...more

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Roberta - Workdogs: More unique stuff out of New York (362 words)
by - written on 09/02/11 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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Currently the New York music scene is leading the way with Balkan and Jewish folk punk rock with bands like Gogol Bordello, Devotchka, Firewater and Nanuchka making a name for themselves in recent years. Turn the clock back 15 years though and there was a different scene, one which wasn't quite as prominent and is almost forgotten today. In the 90s, there was a post punk blues rock scene, today many of the recordings are hard to come by, one of those that I had the pleasure tolisten to recently was an album called "Roberta" by the Workdogs. Workdogs never had a big following and most of their fans were members of other New York rock bands. ...  Read the complete review

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