Search - Roy Loney, Phantom Movers :: Hundred Miles an Hour 1978-1989

Raven presents for the first time a comprehensive anthology covering the career of one of the great cult artist of American rock 'n' roll: ROY LONEY & THE PHANTOM MOVERS. A Hundred Miles an Hour 1978-1989 is an exhilarating, multi-label collection, 28 tracks and 77 minutes of red hot rock 'n' roll. With superb quality audio, detailed liner notes, color booklet. Originally lead singer with the legendary Flamin' Groovies (Supersnazz, Flamingo, Teenage Head), Roy Loney kicked off his solo career with the 'Artistic As Hell' EP (1978), boasting flat our rockers 'Don't Believe Those Lies' and 'Hundred Miles An Hour'. "Primitive rock with taste" is what the man himself called it, and it still sounds utterly contemporary. The superbly crafted Out after Dark album (1979) was semi-acoustic hard rock and rockabilly par excellence - as if Elvis and Scotty had been recorded by Jimmy Miller at Olympic rather than Sam Phillips at Sun. Celebratory anthem 'Phantom Mover' and voodoo rocker 'Used Hoodoo' are perfect examples of the genre. The killer rockabilly and gloriously R&B charged rockers continue with 'Act Of Love', 'Down The Road Apiece', 'Lana Lee', 'Ragged But Wrong' and 'Chicken Run Around'. Roy Loney is still touring (including a current reunion with Groovie Cyril Jordan). Loney is an innovator, bringing life back to some forgotten threads of rock 'n' roll. He is one of the true originals of our time.