Sugar Tradition – More Sugar [DETROIT Garage Psyche 2023] - New 12"

Sounds like mid 1960s motor city when Bo Diddley's maximum R&B had taught the masses how do it up right...and the new breed of Michigan bands like MC5, Stooges, Bob Seger System, Grand Funk were about to pick up the baton from the Sonics, Mitch Ryder...and jam that baton in the gearbox and create a dynamo at the end of the decade that nearly everybody and everything great would use to kick their proceedings into overdrive..but actually this band wasn't backing up MC5 in 1968...they are kicking it out right now, fit into the new pack of Detroit outfits who come straight out of the 1960s, but other than the fact that his band don't seem to give a rat's ass much of what came after the 1960s and opt more for the R&B than the Hooker-inspired blues, the Nuggets psyche rather than the HC, they also fit in with the other recent Motor City pack of animals that take John Lee Hooker and Negative Approach and mix it with the Stooges and the Gories and launch into the 2020s.  You can burn it down and board it up, and in the ashes evil fuckheads from other places will do everything they can to try to ruin Michigan with their vintage stores and coffee shops, and money-grubbing land-grabbing investors who should be decapitated and skulls put on sticks to mark the city limits, the music the Black people of Detroit can not be killed...the sound of the factories rise above the ka-chang of the cash register, and the bands of Detroit will continue to crank it out and drown out the chatter in a fresh-water ocean of polluted dreams and beautiful grime. -- winch