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Rock The Blues

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Killing Floor

 
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A punishing late '60s hard rock nugget.

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    Knocking it out in the clubs with other Brit bands all wishing to get a piece of Led Zeppelin's growing glory in 1970, Killing Floor turned in this album of bruising and energetic bluesy thud. You can hear mid-'70s hard-rocking boogie being invented on the horn-charted "My Mind Can Ride Easy" and the climactic "People Change Your Mind." The band's assault comes via the metal-plated Yardbirds riffs and a rhythm section always grooving and nimble. The roadhouse piano of Lou Martin, who visited Stateside stages regularly in Rory Gallagher's band a couple years later, absolutely runs over the listener on "Lou's Blues." Killing Floor released a second album the following year, Out of Uranus — hardy-har-har, what jokers — then folded.

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