Red Red Alabama Kid

Red Red (USA/BE) Alabama and (debut album) title track. A song about Mr Clarence Reeves, the Alabama Kid. Artwork single by DJ VrDnck Recorded at SputnikStudio Mastered by Shelle Dierickx After years of working on their sound and building a reputation as a fierce live act, American/Belgian quintet Red Red are finally releasing their debut LP, ‘The Alabama Kid’. While fans of guitar-slinging acts like Blackberry Smoke, The Black Keys or Gary Clarke Jr. will find plenty to like in the album, Red Red brings in sounds never heard before in the genre. The band combines eclectic elements like the sampling magic of Belgian hip-hop turntablist DJ Courtasock and the world influences of American singer/guitarist (and ethnomusicologist) Tom Beardslee into a sound that stands way out from their contemporaries. In ‘The Alabama Kid’ the band shows off this wide range of influences, from the Robert Palmer thump of the album’s opener ’Lay Me Down Marie’ to the bluegrass psychedelia of ’The Cuckoo’, to the drum-and-bass boogie of ’I Gotta Know’. Alabama Kid words: T. Beardslee music: Beardslee/Ceulemans/Forget/ Scheffer/Vandergooten © ℗ Donor Productions 2023 A southpaw but with a right that hit like a hammer a brick wall send you runnin’ home to your mama Yours fears, your weakness, you better keep ‘em hid if you’re gonna step into the ring, child, with the Alabama Kid A fast man but his fists still brought down the thunder Black American, yeah in the white bread circuit Down Under Ain’t no statue nowhere, to remember what he did Australia’s knock-out champion The Alabama Kid A strong man crossed the world in search of the fire but the wrong man not what White Australia desired Deported back home, for nothin’ that he did Exiled for the color of his skin The Alabama Kid A southpaw but with a right that hit like a hammer a brick wall send you runnin’ home to your mama A name that history forgotten and hid Mr Clarence Reeves, the Alabama Kid Play it loud! Super Loud!