Fuel 2000
2007
Treat Him Right: The Best Of Roy Head
About This Album
This collection, a solid representation as any of Roy Head's earlier canon, shows that the very thing that gave him strength as a performer is the very thing that prevented him from figuring more prominently in musical history: that is, his defiance of genre lines, particularly lines that were tethered to notions of race. He was known primarily for the lusty, slinky blue-eyed R&B masterpiece "Treat Her Right" (released in 1965), but unlike other blue-eyed soulsters of the mid-'60s (Righteous Brothers, Box Tops, Rascals), the Texan was edgy, not gentile, smooth or cute. (He was somewhat like a white James Brown.) Troubling the picture more, his roots were in '50s-style rock & roll, and (post-R&B) he would eventually eke out a living as a mutton-chopped, cowboy-hat-wearing country singer. The earlier tracks on this collection come off like a roving, nomadic clinic on early rock & roll: there's the perfect approximation of Buddy Holly (or Bobby Fuller) rock & roll on "One More Time"; the lean, feral drag-tempo "Don't Be Blue" with leather-bluesy accents of Gene Vincent all over it; and "Live It Up," which is pure Jerry Lee Lewis.
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