Huey, Louie & Dewey were a Neo-Rockabilly trio from the small town of Mikkeli. Now as the biggest city in Finland is Helsinki with about 500.000 people pretty much every town in this country is small, but Mikkeli has just about 34,000 residents. I have never been there but I know a few Mikkeli Psychobillies(and one Skinhead) and can say that they are among the finest young men I have had the pleasure to meet while in Finland. H,L & D played their Neo-Rockabilly between 1990 and 1998 and then gave it a try again in 2007. I think they didn't try very hard because the last time they signed in to their MySpace site was Febuary 2008. In 1993 the band recorded their only album 'A Date With...' that was release in 1994 by Rockhouse Records. I remember thinking 'The band name is so stupid, the record must be shit.' And so I didn't buy it and never listened to it. After I had moved to Finland I started to hear good things about the band and their album so I tried to track down the LP but had no success. No surprise as I found out now. It seems it was released on CD only. But thanks to certain blogs where you can get download links for long time OOP records, I finally got the album and I'm happy I didn't spend any money on it because I think it is boring and bad. No doubt, the guys were heavily influenced by the Neo-Rockabilly style of Restless but like most other bands who tried before to recreate that style they failed. The guitar playing is light-years behind the virtuosity of Harman, it sometimes even sounds as if the guitar was out of tune, and when, for a change, a song has some nice traditional Rockabilly guitar-picking it gets ruined by the bad voice of the singer. The 90s were terrible boring years for Neo-Rockabilly and Psychobilly and this album is proof to that. But I wouldn't be surprised if it's a cult-classic in Japan. They adore bands there nobody in Europe cares about.
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