here is the NFO file from Indietorrents
Artist : The Detroit Cobras
Album : The Original Recordings
Source :
Year : 2008
Genre : Garage R&BEncoder : Unknown
Codec : LAME 3.97
Bitrate : VBR ~210K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag : ID3v2.3Review
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This one slipped quietly under the radar – I just happened to be listening to Tied and True and googled to see if they were playing any East Coast shows this year, and sure enough, this had just come out. It was supposed to come out years ago – last time I saw them couldn’t have been earlier than 2005 and I was talking to Maribel about their old stuff, and she said everything they’d done was coming out that month.Anyway, if you love the Cobras, of course you want to hear it – there’s like 5 totally unreleased session tunes, plus all the singles and comp stuff that you probably don’t have a real copy of and have a crappy rip of from like napster.
If you don’t know them, it’s not your best start – putting these tunes in context by having the whole sessions represented, it’s pretty clear why Village of Love, Over to My House and Slumlord and the bsides are the ones you’ve heard. For me though, as a lover of the band who has played Life Love and Leaving no less than 1000 times, owned like 3 copies of it (never lend that record out, you will not get it back), and bought for friends a zillion times and still isn’t sick of it, it’s interesting to peer into the secret life of a young band while they were figuring out exactly what the hell they were doing.
Heh, I only write the whole description myself if they’re one of my very favorite bands. Hell, they might be my favorite that’s still recording, and that’s saying something considering they’re a cover band.
amg sez:
One of the earliest groups to emerge from the Detroit garage rock scene, the Detroit Cobras developed a reputation as the Midwest’s finest (and most distinctive) cover band — while the bandmembers devoted themselves to performing other people’s material rather than recycling established hits, the Detroit Cobras dug deep into the well of vintage R&B and primitive rock & roll sides, building an individual identity out of lost classics from the past which they modified to fit their swaggering aural personality. The Detroit Cobras were formed in 1995 by Steve Shaw, who developed a taste for classic R&B from spending time with Alex Chilton, whom he met through his friends in Detroit primitives the Gories. The first edition of the Detroit Cobras featured former exotic dancer Rachel Nagy on vocals, Shaw and Maribel Restrepo (ex-Vertical Pillows) on guitars, Jeff Meier (from Rocket 455) on bass, and Vic Hill on drums, and they released their first 7" in 1996.
In what would prove to be the first in a long line of personal changes, Hill was replaced by Chris Fachini by the time the Cobras released their third single (which also hit the stores in 1996), and their debut LP, Mink Rat or Rabbit, featured a third timekeeper, Damian Lang (who’d worked with Snake Out and Elvis Hitler). During the three years that passed before the Detroit Cobras appeared on the Jack White-produced compilation Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit, founder Shaw left the band, with Dante Aliano stepping in on guitar and Rob Smith taking over on bass. Rachel Nagy’s tough but soulful vocals and Maribel Restrepo’s lean, muscular guitar lines would be the group’s only constants from this point on, though they would be enough to earn the group a potent following on the American garage scene and a major buzz in the United Kingdom, where they scored a deal with the fabled indie label Rough Trade, which released 2001’s Life, Love and Leaving in Great Britain (it appeared on Sympathy for the Record Industry in the United States). (That LP also featured new guy Eddie Hawrsh on bass.)
While veteran tunesmiths Ellie Greenwich and Jackie DeShannon expressed interest in writing material with the group, the fourth Cobras album, 2004’s Baby, once again featured them rocking out on a stack of R&B dusties, though Greg Cartwright, who helped produce the album, did co-write an original with Nagy and Restrepo, "Hot Dog (Watch Me Eat)." The album also documented another Cobras lineup, with Nagy and Restrepo joined by Steve Nawara on guitar, Joe Mazzola on bass, and Kenny Tudrick on drums. After a brief hiatus and a move to Bloodshot Records, the Phil Spector-influenced Tried and True was released in 2007 with yet another rotation of musicians — reintroducing Greg Cartwright and adding seasoned bassist Carol Schumacher, a fellow member of the Reigning Sound, to the ever-changing roster. Mark Deming, All Music Guide
Track Listing
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1. Village of Love (2:14)
2. Maria Christina (2:01)
3. Come Over to my House (3:32)
4. Sad Affair (2:37)
5. Down in Louisiana (3:13)
6. Ain’t it a Shame (2:00)
7. Slum Lord (2:23)
8. It’s Raining (2:34)
9. Cha Cha Twist (2:43)
10. Funnel of Love (2:02)
11. I’ve Got a Feeling (2:41)
12. Brainwashed (2:22)
13. Time Changes Things (1:56)
14. Curly Haired Baby (2:46)
15. With Body and Soul (3:30)Total Playing Time: 38:44 (min:sec)
Total Size : 57.8 MB (60,561,031 bytes)