Music Review

Are You Jimmy Ray? (1998)

Jimmy Ray
Reviewed by Tom Lanham | Mar 06, 1998
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Jimmy Ray; Genres: Electronic, Rock

How many long-buried pop genres have yet to claw their way out of the catacombs and into the '90s? At least one: peg-slacked, pompadoured rockabilly, banished since the great Stray Cats/Polecats/Blue Cats scare of 1982. Here it is in Are You Jimmy Ray?, via hiccupy Ray, who gleefully pairs techno rhythms with a Sun-session slap back and chirpy female chorus. Break out the Brylcreem. A-

Originally posted Mar 06, 1998 Published in issue #421 Mar 06, 1998 Order article reprints
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