NICKLEBAG: 12 Hits And A Bump RARE CD Japanese import; Steve Salas. Heavy hard rock + 4 great covers! Check samples!!

NICKLEBAG: 12 Hits And A Bump[ Japanese import with additional booklet in Japanese and a postcard (of sorts). Featuring the top guitarist Steve Salas, but is surprisingly Heavy. Has received top reviews from all the magazines. Essential.
Criminally underexposed hard rock from the late 90s. Steve Salas was the guitar whiz from Color Code, while Bernard Fowler has sung with the Stones and Ryuichi Sakamoto. They're backed up here by Bernie Worrell (Funkadelic / Talking Heads) and produced -- loudly -- by Bill Laswell. Quite a cast! Between Fowler's soulful shout and Salas shredding like Hendrix, this is really a lost gem. The sound initially recalls Living Color, but Hendrix, Cream, Robin Trower, and especially the Physical Graffiti / Presence - era Zeppelin all echo though Nicklebag's funky yet very heavy sound. More obscure black hard rockers like Sound Barrier and Mother's Finest ploughed similar ground but these guys go much further, delivering "Wind Cries Mary"-style ballads in "Don't Know Why I Love You" and "Turning The Other Way," prog metal in "Grow" and "Love Song," and classic riff rock in "Repetition" and "Sweet Thang" (the album's marvelous "should've-been-a-single"). They even do some respectable covers, including Bowie's "Win" and Zep's "Hots On For Nowhere." Highly recommended.
Track Listings
1. Love Song (All up in My World)
2. Hit It and Quit It (Funkadelic COVER VERSION)
3. I Will
4. Indanee
5. Turning the Other Way

6. Too Many Mountains [Big Daddy Mix]
7. Sweet Thang
8. Don't Know Why I Love You (Stevie Wonder COVER VERSION originally the B side of a 1969 Single!)
9. Grow
10. Repetition

11. Soul Search [Mother Mix]
12. Win (David Bowie' COVER VERSION)
13. Hots on for Nowhere (Led Zeppelin COVER VERSION)
14. Soul Search [* bonus track]]