The Pat Savage Band

“Hog Wild”

Reviewed by: Too Coo Fo school Foo

MAY 2000

”If you don’t love the blues you got a hole in your soul.” … Albert King

If you like your Blues, rockin’ raw and wild, you’ll like “Hog Wild” the Pat Savage Band’s new CD. Complete with Harley Davidson throttle noise, this disc features 14 cuts of high energy roadhouse blues-rock. The meat is in his 12 originals though. The disc’s opening cut “Hog Wild” is a Bo Diddley bear with great slide guitar work and solid drumming. Pat covers a lot of blues-groove territory in this collection. His Jimmy Rogers type shuffle “Doncha Listen” features traditional type guitar tones ala Albert Collins where you can here Pat’s T-Bone influences as well. “Gotta Git Out” is a rocker based on a guitar line with great Hammond B-3 playing through out.

Pat’s 70’s rock roots come alive on this cut. “Hungry Man Blues” is a slow blues with rich guitar work over nice non-traditional chord changes. The cut “Midnight Ride” is a jazz-swing type thing with Wes Montgomery influences in the guitar work. Pat does justice to “Bad Go Getter” one of the only two covers he does on this disc. This cut is a Rory Gallagher influenced, British blues-rocker. The mellow Trowerish “I Can’t Wait Much Longer” captures Pat’s deep roots in this area as well. All the other original cuts in this collection are various traditional blues grooves that Pat used extremely well to express his enormous repertoire of blues, rock and jazz guitar influences. For those people that lean towards jam style 70’s blues-rock guitar playing, this disc is for you!