TAPPING THE SOURCE
By the way, there are no boys in Boyskout, just like there are no girls in the Lazy Cowgirls – but, oh, if you think outlaw country is a treat (as I do), you should hear the outlaw rock that Pat Todd and the boys lay down in their albums, from Tapping the Source onward.
(January 2014)
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A few years later, Greg Shaw gave the Lazy Cowgirls a proper album (and one of their best), Tapping the Source (1987). Shaw even relaunched Bomp! Records to release it, since it didn’t really fit on his active Voxx Records label. He included one of their classic songs, “Can’t You Do Anything Right?” on the two-CD retrospective set called Destination: Bomp!, whose songs and liner notes also provide a concise history of the legendary Bomp! Records label that styles itself “the last of the independent record labels”.
In the liner notes for Destination: Bomp!, Greg Shaw writes: “The [Lazy] Cowgirls had made one badly misproduced album before Tapping the Source, the Bomp LP that captured for the first time their real strengths, the nonstop buzzsaw guitar attack and Pat Todd’s vein-bursting passion as a vocalist.”
(March 2017)
