v/a - Leather jackets and diesel smoke: Chilli dippin' in red tiger shoes - Gems and oddities from Lux and Ivy's vault 2CD

50 fantastic tracks from the eclectic vault of The Cramps’ Lux And Ivy’s inspired record collecting. Featuring dishevelled acid folk, super sweet bubble gum pop, atmospheric oddball sounds, dark and brooding rhythms and a veritable hoard of rough, rare and ready rockabilly and rock ’n’ roll. Including photo garage blow outs, early R&B grooves and an overhead cam of hot rod tales alongside esoteric exotica and straight ahead novelty pop.With madcap performances from Donnie James with the Mighty Joe Houston Orchestra, Tall Tonio And The Mello-Dees, Chris Christian And The Chordaires, Elisabeth Waldo, Fred Katz and John Reedy & His Stone Mountain Trio among many more; it’s a cavalcade of no-hit wonders, every last one of them a gem. A host of mind altering conversation pieces that cover the waterfront of ‘Women In Cadillacs’ and ‘Hocus Pocus’ with the romantic love letter ‘Wet Back’, the super sweet ‘Candy Kisses & Bubbly Gum’, the lonesome croon of Mack Self’s ‘Everyday’ and the poignant ‘Trail Of Tears’ by the mysterious Willows. A veritable head rush of what pop music should be, timeless nuggets as weird and wonderful it gets. Remastered from the original sound sources with sleevenotes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson.

CD 1:
1 Shot Rod - Conny & The Bellhops
2 You're Gone, I'm Left - Schmidling, Tyrone
3 Rat-A-Ma-Cue [Part 1] - Patterson, Pat
4 Twangin Machine - Accidentals, The
5 Rakin' And Scrapin' - Beard, Dean
6 Red Tiger Shoes - Century Five, The
7 Teenie Weenie Jeanie - Chuck & Gary
8 The Devil's Old Suitcase - Thum, Pam
9 The Fight - Kane, Gary
10 Somebody Changed The Lock - Lightning Junior & The Empires
11 Monkey On The Moon - Hall, Gene
12 Canaveral Rock - Blasts, The
13 Trail Of Tears - Willows
14 Johnny Vagabond - Guitar, Bonnie
15 Honey Buggie - Green, Linda
16 Candy Kisses & Bubbly Gum - Silver Belles / Silver, Herb's Orchestra
17 Hocus Pocus - Raiders, The
18 Walk Baby Walk - Houston, Mighty Joe Orchestra
19 A Hot-Rodders-Dream - Burden, Ray
20 Dees Hot-Rod-Car - Tall Tonio & The Mello
21 Hot Rod Race - Ryan, Charlie
22 Busy Line - Williams, Billy Quartet
23 Chilli Dippin' Baby - Poynter, Joyce
24 Charlie Chan - Sounds, The
25 Big Bowl Of Soul - Huntsmen, The
26 I've Been Wrong - Sweetie Jones

CD 2:
1 Hot Shot - Pearson, Ronnie
2 The Cat's Were Jumpin' - Worthan, John
3 You Don't Love Me - Cobbs, William
4 Lover Boy - Christian, Chris & The Chordaires
5 Rat-A-Ma-Cue [Part 2] - Patterson, Pat
6 Ford & Shaker - Gallagher, James
7 Teen Machine - Gamblers, The
8 The City - S&Y Nelson
9 Zooba - Ralke, Don
10 Foxy - Edmund, Lada
11 Pakistan - Adams, Ritchie
12 Incan Festival Dance - Waldo, Elisabeth
13 Bongosera - Grupo Afro-Cubano
14 Foggy, Foggy Dew - Katz, Fred
15 Oh Death - Reedy, John & His Stone Mountain Trio
16 I'm Not Ashamed (Ugly Woman) - Reaves, Pearl & The Concords
17 Leather Jacket Cowboy - Pepper Pots
18 Diesel Smoke - O'dell, Doye
19 Long Black Shiny Car - Page, Mike
20 Women And Cadillacs - Night Riders, The
21 Go Cat Go - Flagg, Bill
22 Itchy Koo - Blackman, Hank & The Killers
23 Everyday - Self, Mack
24 Wet Back - Flowers, Vancie