The Broken Spurs
Shake
In Jeffrey Lee Pucket's Courier-Journal (Louisville) album review
of their first release, 'Give It Your Blood', he says:
"The Broken Spurs are the rock 'n' roll equivalent of
pure, adrenalized, single-minded lust. If there were
four girls and a stack of vintage Stones records on
one side of a brick wall, the Spurs would go through
the wall-not around or over it, but directly through
the center, emerging on the other side bleeding, horny
and already writing a new song. Which brings us to
"Give It Your Blood," the Spurs' aptly titled debut album,
This is relentless, fearless music that celebrates rock
'n’ roll, all of it pooling together in a sticky,
passionate mess. It's like getting simultaneously hit
and felt up. The songs, written by singers Adam Kramer
and Benny Clark, work a lot of familiar influence but
revitalize them all through sheer willpower. Kramer's
slurred, Jaggeresque delivery conjures the Stones;
Clark's songs are shot through with the dirty glam of
the New York Dolls; the heavy riffs combined with the
rhythm, at times recall AC/DC..."