Rudi Protrudi- Live From the Heart of the Berlin Delta
Rudi Protrudi
Unfuzzed
Hound Gawd! Records , 2014
I’ve been listening to this release, “Unfuzzed,” more than I usually listen to new music. It’s fun, familiar and fresh at the same time. 
And if you’re wondering what I mean by the opening sentence, I get sent so much new music each week, it’d make your pointy head spin to try and hear it all, let alone listen to it any of it repeatedly.
So here’s Rudi Protrudi in a new setting of performing blues standards rather than garage rock rave ups. And he’s right at home with the material. In particular he seems to shine brightly on the 2 John Lee Hooker numbers he plays, “Big Legs, Tight Skirt,” and the classic “Boom Boom.”
“Bloodstains on the Wall,” and “Dirty Motherfucker,” are delivered with enough panache and aplomb to be at home in the next Tarantino film featuring a roadhouse scene.
Recorded before a live audience, in Germany, from the heart of the Berlin Delta, the crowd is receptive and seems to be having as much fun as the band onstage. They wrap things up with an animated version of Ray Charles, “What’d I Say” leaving everyone wanting more. Mr. Protrudi and company are loose with the arrangements but never sloppy. Establishing a groove and getting down with it.
Yeah, just enough to make you want some more.
