NEWS

- Lisa's eagerly awaited debut album 'The Devil Said Shake' on Raucous Records is now available to order. Visit the 'Cuttin' the Wax' page to order now where details are also available for the CD Single, 'Blue-Eyed Rockabilly Boy', Lisa's self-penned lead track doing the rounds on the airwaves and in a club near you! Reviews on both the Album and CD Single are below.

- Look out for Lisa doin' her thang on the current Peter Grant tour - details can be found on the Jumpin' Joints page.

- Lisa's MySpace page can be found at www.myspace.com/lisageorgepedalos if you'd like to leave Lisa a message directly - for all general / booking enquiries please visit the 'Contact Us' page for details.

- Apologies for the typo error on our behalf on the cover of 'The Devil Said Shake' album which reads as our website being at www.lisageorge.net - the bands official website is www.lgpedalos.co.uk and hopefully you've found yourself here without too much cyber-travelling!

 

REVIEWS

'The Devil Said Shake’ Album
This album contains different styles of songs, and Lisa does them all equally well. Good Job Gal - Keep Rockin'
Wanda Jackson

 

‘Blue-Eyed Rockabilly Boy’ CD Single
What a great opening riff – let’s hear that one more time…!”
Geoff Barker on playing ‘Blue-Eyed Rockabilly Boy’ on BBC Radio’s Rock’n’Roll Party Show

 

"The Devil Said Shake" Album

This is Lisa's first CD for Raucous Records and it's definitely in the Imelda May area of rock'n'roll. It was recorded at Blackpool's Riverside Studios by the well respected Chris Cummings and is an immaculate set.

Lisa's neo-Latin version of Johnny Burnette's 'Touch Me' is evocative to say the least, and the set continues in similar provocative fashion with her burning attck on LaVern Baker's wonderful 'Voodoo Voodoo'. What a way to start an album!

I'm not familiar with the lively 'Holy Joe' written by Alvin Marper, but Ray Stanley's 'Market Place' has been recorded by so many artists that it's now become something of a standard. Lisa's take on it is delivered with much conviction and leads nicely into 'Cried In Knots', an original country style rocker from the pen of Mick Cocksedge that's very authentic. Wanda Jackson's 'Funnel Of Love' has a terrific western swing feel to it and next to the torrid openers is my favourite on the album.

'Blue-Eyed Rockabilly Boy' is a self-penned number that's also available as a single on Raucous RAUCD 216 (with two non-album tracks). It ranks with a lot of earlier neo releases that were popular during the 80's rockabilly revival and should do well. 'Aint Love Addictive' is another highly effective Mick Cocksedge number, this time with a jazzy torch styling.

In complete contrast, 'Keep On Pushin' ' is based on Chuck Berry's 'You Can't Catch Me'. Jean Shepard's jaunty 'Jeopardy' is highly intoxicating and the Sister Rosette Tharpe arrangement of 'Didn't It Rain' is just great. Lisa certainly exhibits versatility. Roy Brown's hard rockin' 'Hip Shakin' Baby' (penned by the Burnettes) complements her style, and she closes with her own 'The Devil Said Shake', a number structured around the Johnny Cash sound that soon develops into a neo styling. I love the line, "Put your cat clothes on and free your soul"!

This is a wonderful, wonderful album.

Steve Aynsley - Now Dig This magazine

 

"The Devil Said Shake" Album

Long anticipated debut from rockabilly songstress Lisa who displays a distinctive voice and a good choice of material, given sympathetic backing by her band. She takes LaVern Baker's 'Voodoo Voodoo' out of R'n'B and with the aid of some mighty echo turns into what could be a rockabilly standard. Obviously influenced by the big name femme vocalists, she also hands in her take on Wanda Jackson's 'Funnel Of Love'. Lisa can also write her own originals, including the title track. An excellent start to Lisa's career.

John Howard - UK Rock magazine

 

"The Devil Said Shake" Album

This ‘Rockabilly Gal’ from Leeds/Sheffield and her ‘Blue-eyed Rockabilly Boy’ are also available on a mini EP with identical title. Due to it’s success Lisa George and the Pedalos brought out a full cd under the name ‘The Devil Said Shake’ and that’s what we will do. The ones who don’t have yet have Blue-eyed rockabilly boy in their archives can also find it on the mini EP together with 2 titles not reproduced on the full cd. The ‘Boy’ together with 12 other songs on this album forms a mix of Rockabilly, Old school Rock ‘n Roll with transgressions to Popcorn and Cool Jazz.

‘Touch me’ is one of those great transgressions. Deep Blue Rumba vibes dictate the tone, this is more than a debut album of an anonymous rockabilly band, such songs make this album so different. Of course you will also find ‘original rockabilly tunes’ such as ‘Holy Joe’ or the slapping ‘Blue eyed Rockabilly Boy’.

Popcorn sound can be found on the beautiful ‘Market Place’ and the terrific ‘Funnel Of Love’, a Wanda Jackson song written by Charlie McCoy and Kent Westbery. Finding a Wanda Jackson title on this cd is logical because sometimes the strong voice of Lisa shows similitudes to the one of ‘La Wanda’

‘Ain’t Love Addictive’ again is a song that just cannot be classified as a simple rockabilly one, but together with ‘Touch Me’, ‘Market Place’ and ‘Funnel of Love’ form a quartet that makes the album so successful. Ain’t That… is a ‘Cool Blend Jazz tune’ in which Lisa’s voice becomes warm and sexy.

Lisa isn’t afraid to prove she’s different by adding one from Gospel monument ‘Sister Rosetta Tharpe’. ‘Didn’t it Rain’ got a complete different arrangement, even although Sister Rosetta already was known to give her ‘spirituals’ a bit of pre-rock in the 30’s and 40’s, but it remains ‘pure religion’.

The band recording the album were John England (guitar), Adrian McKenna (guitar), Micky Dixon (pedal steel), Johnny Wood (upright bass) and Richard Blanchard (drums). ‘The Devil Said Shake’ is a better than  good debut album and contains lots of variation.'
Francois - Rootsville Magazine

 

'The Devil Said Shake' Album

Lisa George has been into 1940s and 50s music for a good while now and some of us know her from Rockin' Rhythm & Blues big band 'The Cat Pack' as well as all girl band 'Helles Belles'. Now the mighty talent of this lady takes her back to performing Rockabilly music once again. Backed up by exceptional musicians 'Lisa George & The Pedalos' is a sensational 5 piece rockabilly outfit and their first album 'The Devil Said Shake' is the proof!

Lucky 13 firey tracks display Lisa's big vocal talents. The album starts with a mellow, sensual version of Johnny Burnette's classic "Touch Me". From the first notes the melody, Lisa's voice transfers you into some wild Mexican desert. A devilish, almost hypnotic drumbeat captivate your emotions, and you want to listen to this album in full.

The second song continues the feel with Lisa's take on Lavern Baker's 'Voodoo Voodoo'. This uptempo stroller allows Lisa to demonstrate her strong, powerful and melodic voice. I don't know if Lisa's roots lie in a love of Rockabilly or more in the Swing and Rhythm & Blues, but the album has a diverse selection of songs with variations on all these styles. The Pedalos add their own feel to each song and show originality in self-penned originals.

The third track of the album 'Holy Joe' is a sneak peak on Lisa's love of Rhythm & Blues. The song is a mix of rockin' guitar and swing motives, the combination which continues throughout on this album. The Pedalos don't stop on one perticular style of music, they mix and match 1940s and 50s styles, occasionally venturing into more modern Rockabilly, as with their scene hit "Blue Eyed Rockabilly Boy".

One of my favourites on this album is 'Market Place', another powerful stroller. Lisa puts in a spellbinding performance convinces me that I have become a real fan of this band.

'Cried in Knots' is written by Mick Cocksedge (known via his own band The Cordwood Draggers). It's a Country tune with typical heartbreaking lyrics perfectly carried through the emotions in Lisa's voice.

'The Devil Said Shake' is a result of supreme music from a combination of one of the best female voices I have ever heard and top rockin' band recorded in one of the best vintage-style recording studios in the UK, Riverside Studios.

This is one of the best albums I have ever listened to, boasting amazing music, vocals and lyrics. Check this album out, you will not be disappointed.

Songs to check out: Blue Eyed Rockabilly Boy, Market Place, Didn't It Rain, The Devil Said Shake, Touch Me and the rest...
Really Rockabilly website

 

Blue-Eyed Rockabilly Boy’ CD Single
“A taster four track CD EP previewing songthrush Lisa’s full length album ‘The Devil Said Shake’. So why buy the EP, instead of waiting for the whole thing? Well, there are two tracks here that WON’T be on the full length CD, and they are both worth having. Lisa co-wrote the title track, but the two additional tracks, Dorsey Burnette’s ‘My One Desire’, and Joyce Green’s stone classic ‘Black Cadillac’ will be worthy additions to any collection. Initially, it seems that Lisa’s voice might be a little light-weight for the material, but she opens up her pipes and reveals an interesting rasping roar that puts her alongside the doyennes of the material like Wanda Jackson and Brenda Lee, probably her major influences. The title track is a fine bopper that should pick up some club play while track two is a slower contrast to what, in the old days, we might have called the top side.”
John Howard – UK Rock magazine

 

 

"The Devil Said Shake" Album

This is the same lady who so ably fronted the Cat Pack, the blasting big band that rocked the Colne festival amongst other venues for 2-3 years awhile back, until the forces of economics caused the band to break up.

Now she’s back, this time as a rockabilly gal, tearing it up on numbers like ‘Holy Joe’, ‘Blue-Eyed Rockabilly Boy’, the title track and others. I must say the idiom certainly suits her voice, which is somewhere between Wanda Jackson and Alvis Lesley. Besides the originals, some self-penned, she has a go at classics such as LaVern Baker’s ‘Voodoo Voodoo’, ‘Hip Shaking Baby’ (J Burnette) and an excellent rab interpretation of Sister Rosetta’s ‘Didn’t It Rain’, all complete with hot guitar and plenty of slap bass, plus pedal steel and piano on some numbers, the latter courtesy of Cat Pack leader Richard Blanchard.

Altogether, this adds up to a welcome release that stands out amongst the plethora of similar releases from bands on the current rock & roll/ rockabilly circuit.

Tony Watson - Blues and Rhythm Magazine

 

"The Devil Said Shake" Album

Lisa George and her boys, meanwhile, gorge on the garden paths treaded by Patsy, Wanda (apparently meeting with the approval of Ms Jackson herself) and perhaps Peggy Lee, but with a voice to suggest the currently continuing soaring success of Imelda May is as much a matter of circumstance than outstanding specialness (ok, aside from having guitar god Darrel Higham onboard) and one that is deserved of this lady as much as it would be Marti Brom or maybe Devil Doll stateside. Shaking the tree to cull peaches from the forties and nifty fifties she may indeed do but self-penned single Blue-Eyed Rockabilly Boy, the title track and guitarist John England’s Chuck-a-billy bopper Keep On Pushing stands above and beyond, and wags a forceful finger at, standards and such as the Burnette brothers Touch Me and Hip Shaking Baby The old ones may be the best but there’s enough here to suggest future outings wouldn’t be worsened by them stepping out with a few more originals. A clear case of DO shake me Lucifer.

Stu Gibson - Sleazegrinder