The eighth album: The Crickets - The Chirping Crickets
Early rock n roll, like this, can sound quite friendly (so can later bands, but bear with me). The guitars aren't tuned to sound quite as raw and the vocals are a bit more melodic. This album, in fact, has some vocal stylings that sound almost doo wop-like to my untrained ears. It's happy and poppy, not quite what I was expecting here. It goes sugar sweet sometimes and stays on the tamer end.
Rock Me My Baby comes closer, offering a sound that reminded me of Elvis at times, but it's rarer - but good when it does, showing the potential there is here.
That still sounds good, a good voice with good backing vocals that make for some amazing tunes. It's well performed. It does what it sets out to do. Sadly, what it sets out to do feels a bit bland, where I was hoping we'd get a bit more than a bunch of sappy love songs.