Volume One of ’The Last Great Rockabilly Saturday Night’ (see NDT 128) is a hard act to follow, but incredibly enough Volume Two has managed it. Once again Dave Travis has produced a superb collection of early rock n roll and rockabilly by well-known and not so well-known artists. Since the issue of the first volume, Stomper Time have purchased the Fernwood catalogue and so their hand has been strengthened still further.If anything, Volume Two is more down to earth than Volume One. If there is a comparison to be made, it’s that the rock n roll and rockabilly of Volume Two shows more of its country roots. But that’s perhaps a superficial judgement – there’s plenty of good time rock n roll to set the pulse racing. Not least Jimmy Pritchett’s piano rocker ’That’s The Way I Feel’. Jim (’The Great Un-knowns’) Raper once reckoned that if he could only ever buy one record, then this might well be it. In the main this second volume is rock n roll and rockabilly pure and simple. No tricks, no gimmicks. It has to be the biggest bargain on offer at the moment.

Chris Woodford, NDT