THE YAYHOOS
"FEAR NOT THE OBVIOUS"
AUG 7, 2001
46:30
1/What Are We Waiting For/Ambel, Anderson/2:57
2/Get Right With Jesus/Baird/4:16
3/Monkey With a Gun/Ambel/3:28
4/I Can Give You Everything/Anderson, Anderson/3:07
5/Bottle and a Bible/Anderson, Baird/3:32
6/For Cryin' out Loud/Christopher/4:14
7/Oh! Chicago/Baird/4:19
8/Wicked World/Baird, Butler, Iommi, Osbourne, Ward/5:08
9/Baby I Love You/Ambel, Holiday, Shannon/3:59
10/Hunt You Down/Anderson/3:20
11/Hankerin'/Baird, Mobley/3:48
12/Dancing Queen/Anderson, Anderson, Ulvaeus/4:22
Eric Ambel / Guitar, Vocals, Producer
Terry Anderson / Guitar, Drums, Vocals
Dan Baird / Bass, Guitar, Vocals
REVIEW
by John Duffy
After several years of sporadic performances and a handful of tunes featured on obscure tribute albums and movie soundtracks, the Yayhoos have finally released a full-length album. Fear Not the Obvious is indeed a telling title for a collection of blue-collar rock tunes made up of the most basic (in fact almost trite) hooks, chords, and lyrics. The phony country of "Bottle and a Bible" is a complete waste of time, and the good-ole-boy swagger of "Hankerin'" is just embarrassing. But the songs saving Fear Not the Obvious from the bargain bins are many. Eric Ambel's crackling guitar riff makes "Monkey With a Gun" a surefire roadhouse rave-up, the high-octane Keith Richards riffing on "I Can Give You Everything" is as dead-on as the Neil Young-ish drop-D tuning meets the Faces sound of "Cryin' Out Loud." Perhaps the most fun though is the country-rock reading of ABBA's "Dancing Queen," which works surprisingly well and highlights that song's addictive melody.
BIOGRAPHY
by Geoff Ginsberg
Made up of three singer/songwriters -- Dan Baird (Georgia Satellites), Eric Ambel (the Del Lords, Eric Ambel & Roscoe's Gang), Terry Anderson (Woods), and one secret weapon, Keith Christopher (Billy Joe Shaver) -- the Yayhoos set out to take over the world in 1995. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way. After a brief Southern tour with Drivin' N' Cryin' on which the band played a greatest-hits set, the boys wrote a batch of swaggering rock songs to shop around. In 1996, they toured Europe and the U.S. in support of Baird's Buffalo Nickel, and several compilation tracks followed ("California" on East Side Story, "Highway Junkie" on Rig Rock Deluxe, and "Tumblin' Dice" with Johnny Copeland on Paint It Blue: Songs of the Rolling Stones). The major labels' response was that three singers (they had four, actually) in one band was too many; also, grown men with facial hair who play rock & roll are not exactly MTV fare. the Yayhoos released Fear Not the Obvious in 2001. Five years later they released Put the Hammer Down and continued to tour.
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"FEAR NOT THE OBVIOUS"
AUG 7, 2001
46:30
1/What Are We Waiting For/Ambel, Anderson/2:57
2/Get Right With Jesus/Baird/4:16
3/Monkey With a Gun/Ambel/3:28
4/I Can Give You Everything/Anderson, Anderson/3:07
5/Bottle and a Bible/Anderson, Baird/3:32
6/For Cryin' out Loud/Christopher/4:14
7/Oh! Chicago/Baird/4:19
8/Wicked World/Baird, Butler, Iommi, Osbourne, Ward/5:08
9/Baby I Love You/Ambel, Holiday, Shannon/3:59
10/Hunt You Down/Anderson/3:20
11/Hankerin'/Baird, Mobley/3:48
12/Dancing Queen/Anderson, Anderson, Ulvaeus/4:22
Eric Ambel / Guitar, Vocals, Producer
Terry Anderson / Guitar, Drums, Vocals
Dan Baird / Bass, Guitar, Vocals
REVIEW
by John Duffy
After several years of sporadic performances and a handful of tunes featured on obscure tribute albums and movie soundtracks, the Yayhoos have finally released a full-length album. Fear Not the Obvious is indeed a telling title for a collection of blue-collar rock tunes made up of the most basic (in fact almost trite) hooks, chords, and lyrics. The phony country of "Bottle and a Bible" is a complete waste of time, and the good-ole-boy swagger of "Hankerin'" is just embarrassing. But the songs saving Fear Not the Obvious from the bargain bins are many. Eric Ambel's crackling guitar riff makes "Monkey With a Gun" a surefire roadhouse rave-up, the high-octane Keith Richards riffing on "I Can Give You Everything" is as dead-on as the Neil Young-ish drop-D tuning meets the Faces sound of "Cryin' Out Loud." Perhaps the most fun though is the country-rock reading of ABBA's "Dancing Queen," which works surprisingly well and highlights that song's addictive melody.
BIOGRAPHY
by Geoff Ginsberg
Made up of three singer/songwriters -- Dan Baird (Georgia Satellites), Eric Ambel (the Del Lords, Eric Ambel & Roscoe's Gang), Terry Anderson (Woods), and one secret weapon, Keith Christopher (Billy Joe Shaver) -- the Yayhoos set out to take over the world in 1995. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way. After a brief Southern tour with Drivin' N' Cryin' on which the band played a greatest-hits set, the boys wrote a batch of swaggering rock songs to shop around. In 1996, they toured Europe and the U.S. in support of Baird's Buffalo Nickel, and several compilation tracks followed ("California" on East Side Story, "Highway Junkie" on Rig Rock Deluxe, and "Tumblin' Dice" with Johnny Copeland on Paint It Blue: Songs of the Rolling Stones). The major labels' response was that three singers (they had four, actually) in one band was too many; also, grown men with facial hair who play rock & roll are not exactly MTV fare. the Yayhoos released Fear Not the Obvious in 2001. Five years later they released Put the Hammer Down and continued to tour.
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