This is the debut single by Carlisle's THE 45s who are at the forefront of the new blues boom. The band signed and gave me a copy of the single when I saw them opening up for Wilko Johnson last month. I was shocked at both how young and how great they are live that night.
Yes the band are all just 16 years old but are already out touring all over the country to promote this brilliant debut single. It Ain't Over is a monster of a blues boom belter. It's a tune about how a woman won't accept that the relationship is over: oh no it Ain't Over according to her. They sound like very early Georgie Fame trying to sound like Willie Dixon and ending up with a Northern soul stomper of a tune, but it's great and needs to be heard over and over again.
On the b-side is Devil Of A Woman and you have to ask what kind of woman has been chasing these young men to make them write such a great classic tune. You could almost imagine Them or the first version of The Yardbirds coming up with it, yet it also sounds like the sort of thing you might have written if you'd gone and spent time in Victoria Spivey's studio hanging out with Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon and the boys like that young guy Bobby Zimmerman once did.
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If there is any justice at all this band are going to be huge. if the current tour lands anywhere near you go and check them out and buy a copy of this. Now.
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