Our first review of our new album"Motels, Gas & Beer".....thx Al E. Cat!

Quarter Mile Combo – Motels, Gas & Beer – CD Review

Don't forget to come hang out at the Krush Backyard concert tomorrow (Thursday, June 12th)

IT'S FREE!!
1/4 Mile Combo
and
Eilen Jewell
Live, doors at 5:30pm, music at 6pm

Food and microbrewed beer available (Lagunitas Krush Americana Ale!)

The KRSH station is located at:

3565 Standish Ave in Santa Rosa

Hope to see you there!!

We just completed our West Coast Marti Brom tour and would like to take a minute to thank all the wonderful people who made it possible -- especially those of you who came out in support of the shows cuz without you there'd be no point! It was quick, dirty and a ton of fun. Special thanks to

Derek Dupree, Big Sandy, Charlie Roman and the Teenage Werewolves, The Bombshells, The Wanderers, Nor, The Blue Lamp (Sacramento, CA), Club Fred (Fresno, CA), 23 Club (Brisbane, CA), and the Elks Lodge (Van Nuys, CA)

A big thank you to Lester Peabody for flying all the way from Finland and for his talent, humor and cowboy stripteases! And finally a special giant thank you to the amazing, gorgeous, hilarious and super talented Marti Brom. It was a pleasure to a share a stage with you. You're an inspiration, Marti!

We miss you both already!

*Tour pictures will be up soon!

1/4 Mile Combo

1/4-MILE COMBO:     The Combo hit the Fourth Street Tavern on January 26 and set soggy San Rafael on fire, knocking out two big sets of rockabilly favorites. St. Peterbilt opened the show with a wide selection of songs about truckers, truckstops, and the agony and ecstasy of life on eighteen wheels, doing a better job of holding my interest than I'd have expected them to. It didn't hurt that their guitarist is Justin Barr, the same Justin Barr who hopped right back onstage to take his usual place with the Combo. He played 40 or 45 songs that night, and when I told him he must be an Iron Man to play that long, he just laughed, "That's nothin'!"

     The rain kept a lot of San Rafael's bar-hopping hee-haws from stumbling in and spoiling the fun, so the true rockabilly fans had the run of the place and more room to dance. After the band's previous show, I'd written a review, sighing wistfully about how much I'd love to hear them play a cover of Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love," and wouldn't you know it, here they were, playing it for me tonight. Vocalist Tyler Terrell did a hell of a good job curling that purring voice of hers around the lyrics, and this was definitely a highlight of the show for me.

     I caught the Combo again on February 17 at DeMarco's Club 23 in Brisbane, along with two other bands, and they sounded even better. In fact, better than I've ever heard them. Maybe it was the acoustics, or maybe they were feeling competitive, but man, they were golden. The set was stripped down to less than an hour, but that was time enough for lots of their standards: "You're My Baby," "Tear It Up," "Big River," "Riot in Cell Block Number 9," and more, right after the other. Tyler, you look great with your hair up like that. And please reconsider the whole leaving-the-band thing.

The Knockout, San Francisco, 1/13/07

     Other than the Pendletons, 1/4 Mile Combo was the last major local rockabilly band I hadn't seen yet. There was always another show happening whenever they were playing, something good enough or close enough to tempt me away. I'm kicking myself for that now, because 1/4 Mile Combo is a hell of a good rockabilly band.

     Tyler Terrell is the vocalist, leading the Combo through a course of classics with a purring but powerful voice. Her sound reminds me of Josie Kreuzer's, but without the syrupy thick Southern drawl. The singing is very natural and she's got a great stage presence. The band is very good too, and the drumming really impressed me. The music's got a lot of kick to it, generally more so than the originals have.

     1/4 Mile Combo must have a direct hook-up to the part of my brain that stores all my favorite rockabilly tunes, because the band played them, one right after another. "Black Cadillac," "Big River," "Straight A's in Love," on and on, all of them well done, and all of them devoured by an audience gone wild; I've never seen so many people so into a band at this club.

     The only sad part of all this is that Tyler is stepping down this spring, so she can devote more time to other areas of her life. Hopefully, the band will carry on with a new singer, but she'll be tough to replace.

     If the band takes requests... man, I'd love to hear her do Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love" before she hangs up that microphone.  

http://www.myspace.com/blackjeanschris

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Thanks for the kind words Chris! And by the way we do know "Funnel Of Love", we'll play it for ya next time!

QMC