Work Release is the latest album by Walter Daniels And The De Valle Valley Trustees who are, in no way as serious a bunch of Convicts, as the members of Prison, the last jailhouse band I reviewed. None of this lot are on death row thankfully. Kevin Curtin, Evan Whitehead, Matt Hammer and Scott Stewart may be bad men, but not death row bad, they were corralled by Roky Moon and Kurtis D. Machler who engineered them into a room, along with visitors Henri Herbert and Texacala Jones to bring us some unfiltered Prison garage blues.
The A-side opens with Instrument Of Losers a short sharp blast from the visitors room and other parts of the prison, in need of dirty blues intensity, Walter takes extreme care of where his harmonica gets placed and blown.
Demon Bacon Ball is something you may not want to know about, especially if like me you're a vegetarian, either way this Demon Bacon ball won't let them get any sleep, lazy backing may lead you to forget the pain it brings.
Prison Bitch isn't a cover of the Split Dogs classic from 2023, This Prison Bitch thinks he's the daddy, you'd better do exactly what he says, or the galloping garage rawk will blast your mind apart, he doesn't want anyone else but you to do those things for him.
I'll Quit Tomorrow features Texacala Jones on the Tex & The Horseheads classic about quitting the demon alcohol once more, full throated pleas for forgiveness, the joys of finally getting sober, well tomorrow maybe, they need to get a drunk on again tonight.
Past Due is something you never want to be, you don't want a visit from this kind of debt collector, this is a slammer style, speedy garage blues, making plain it's time to pay up, or face what’s coming.
Luv You In Jail is a down home country twanger for some poor convict pining for his sweetheart, he's hoping to get back too, the mandolin seems central to the pain he feels.
The B-Side opens with Henri Herbert's immense blues piano on 11 months 29 Days the Johnny Paycheck classic, he's lonesome, I won't be away too long, behave yourself now treatise, hearing that harmonica Piano battle makes the entire album worth getting, just for this monster of a version, rescuing it from the clutches of Toby Keith.
Commissary Larry is the man, know what I mean, he'll get you whatever you need, if you have the coin he requires, this dark tale of his legend goes places you might not want to, but if your gonna survive in here you better be a friend to him, coz he's King.
One Step Closer and I'll tell mummy all about you, that love you desire, the one you dare not speak about, the furious flying garage rocking mania, bringing you One Step Closer to what you know you want.
Ex-Convict Song for an ex-speed dealer out on parole and hoping to stay free this time around, a down-home country blues for his momma, he makes all the normal promises of the newly freed ex-prison trustee trying to go straight country, getting the blues right outta his system.
The album closes with a juicy version of Strychnine dark garage blast at this perennial classic, full on fuzzy guitar, raging for a good shot of that stuff, great valve microphone sound, getting to the core of why I love getting more versions of this song.
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