Hands up for who remembers White Sister? They released two albums, the first of which was killer and then they imploded. Three quarters of the band came back to try again however in ’91 with Tattoo Rodeo. If I played you a track by each band back to back you would never know they were the same band.
The template for Tattoo Rodeo is a huge dose of southern rock, with a hint of country, and a teenie bit of old school Aerosmith. Somebody must have loved them as this was released on Atlantic. They had friends in high places, although they would desert them after this one as they would be dropped when the album didn’t sell that well. If this was released five years earlier then things could have been different.
High points for me are the opener (also my favourite) Strung Out as there is a huge dose of AC/DC in the mix which makes the song groove along nicely; Everybody Wants What She’s Got which if the whole album sounded like this then it would have been a classic; and Shotgun Johnny which is a slower paced dirty groove beast as I’m always a sucker for this type of song.
Who knows why they changed direction, maybe they wanted to latch onto what Cinderella were doing as the album does have that vibe. Not a bad album, but not a great one either.
7.5/10 from The Grooveman.
