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Guaranteed to Satisfy

Guaranteed to Satisfy

By The Derailers

Alternative - 2008

Living in the past may not be a healthy way to go about your day-to-day life, but it sure does... more

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About Guaranteed to Satisfy

Living in the past may not be a healthy way to go about your day-to-day life, but it sure does wonders for country music. The Derailers' eighth studio album Guaranteed To Satisfy satiates with 12 honky-tonk a go-go songs that play like the recordings of an unearthed Bakersfield act from 1968, when bands like The Byrds and The Everly Brothers were injecting country with jangling 12-string Rickenbackers and subtle psychedelic tinges. "Bad Bad Girl" opens with straight-up, old school, piano pounding, roadhouse twang — utilizing a Telecaster that picks and bends like they somehow got the ghost of Don Rich to show up for a session. "I'm Still Missing You" boasts verses that swagger like a Roy Orbison song and a chorus that slightly borrows from Mel Tillis' "Mental Revenge" while retaining vintage Bakersfield tones. The bouncy and beachy "The Sun Is Shining On Me" moves a little further south down California's I-5 with gorgeous Roger McGuinn inspired arpeggios and soaring vocal harmonies that could have been arranged by The Association. Similarly, "You Carried Me" gets countrypolitan, like vintage Charlie Rich, and nothing against Joaquin Phoenix, but The Derailers do a better Johnny Cash with "Blood Of A Man" than anything on Walk The Line.