All Black and Hairy is the first and only album by American garage rock revival band Gravedigger V, released in 1984 before the band disbanded.
Critical reception AllMusic called the album "both perfectly named and perfectly performed -- if it's nothing but a revivalist approach at heart, it's such a damn entertaining one that there's no cause for complaint." Trouser Press called it "groovy, authentic-sounding (credit the production by label owner Greg Shaw) garage punk with convincing ’60s clumsiness and sincerity." Maximumrocknroll wrote that "the high points here are an amazingly snot-nosed vocalist with sneering ’60s inflections, some strong original songwriting, an appropriately tinny 'mono' production, and an above-average choice of tunes to cover."
Track listing
Side A All Black And Hairy (Lord Sutch) Tomorrow Is Yesterday (Friedman) No Good Woman Do Like Me Hate She's A Cur (Leighton, Ward)
Side B Searching (Revercomb, Allen) She's Gone (Leighton, Friedman) Night Of The Phantom (Larry And The Blue Notes) Don't Tread On Me (K. Massengill) One Ugly Child (Bright) She Got (Friedman) Stoneage Stomp (Leighton, Friedman)
Personnel Tom Ward – vocals, bass David Anderson – drums John Hanrattie – guitars Ted Friedman – lead vocals, lead guitars Leighton – vocals Gary Stern – engineer Greg Shaw – producer
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