CD - Roky Erickson - Don't Slander Me

1 CD - Import - reissue on Light In The Attic - out of print

Celebrating a creative purple patch by a singular performer, Light in the Attic is to reissue the three Roky Erickson albums orchestrated by Orb Productions, Craig Luckin's San Francisco-based music company. In revisiting the Evil One (LITA 097), Don't Slander Me (LITA 098) and Gremlins Have Pictures (LITA099), we hold a lens to a unique artist beloved of Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, ZZ Top, Jesus And Mary Chain, the Black Angels, Jack White and many more.

If the Evil One was the album that broke Erickson out of the indie ghetto and brought him to a worldwide audience, the follow-up, 1986's Don't Slander Me was the one that showcased his rock and roll sensibilities like no recording before.

Losing the more out-there and exotic elements of earlier and future albums, it presents US with Erickson the rocker, playing punk, rockabilly, blues and - in 'Burn the Flames', later found on the Return of the Living Dead soundtrack even power ballads.