Red hot swingin' rockabilly from Slovenia. Great production, great vocal, good choice of covers and beautiful solo guitar I only heard by Stray Cats. You know what I mean. It's nice, a bit clear and warm guitar sound. These guys are great musicians and they know how to create the 50s sphere. You can really enjoy it with The Lucky Cupids even if you are not big rockabilly fan. I love when they sing in Slovenian, sounds even better than in English. I strongly recommend this Band to everybody - not only rockabilly lovers. "Pride Dan" is mostly in Slovenian and almost cover free (at least I recognize only few songs, but please forgive my poor knowledge of rockabilly music). Honestly it's even better than really great "Red Hot Rockabilly". Lucky Cupids are really great songwriters. Great guitar sound, specially in "Kaksna je ta zenska?". I must say that "Tainted Love" is really great killer version of early 80s synth pop. I also love "Zacaran Sem", nice rockabilly ballad with beautiful guitar - with Las Vegas strip bar feeling. Bonus is acoustic rockabilly session - nice for after hours with bottle of vine. NO BRAINS ZINE! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Lucky Cupids Really good Eurobilly from Slovenia, with excellent production, loads of oomph and that 'sweeping' guitar sound. It's got that 'Eurobilly' style - think of Mac Curtis on King meets Joe Meek! Mostly sung in Slovene, but don't let that put you off. This is an excellent CD from The Lucky Cupids, with some nice melodic, catchy songs. They were good enough for The Rockabilly Rave.The title translates as 'Come the day'. "The Lucky Cupids was established in 1994 and plays mainly the crazy 50's rockabilly music, a mix between swing, surf, rhythm and blues, a little country and western style. Their first CD, Pride Dan was released in 1999 and is the first and only rockabilly project in Slovenia. Almost all the songs are in Slovene, but don't let that put you off, because all tracks sound really great! The first thing that strikes me when listening to the CD, is that the many familiar songs do not sound like cover versions. They sound new and original. The band did not copy the songs note by note, but added their own musical ideas. The instrumental side of the tracks is very strong, fresh and professional. Vocalist Andrej Rudolf sounds a lot like Vince Taylor. Other influences are The Johnny Burnette Trio, Gene Vincent and The Stray Cats. The Lucky Cupids deserve more international recognition." home.plamet.nl 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
THE LUCKY CUPIDS Music Style:
ROCKABILLY, 50's & early 60's ROCK'N'ROLL, SWING, LOUNGE, JUMP BLUES, HONKY TONK, WESTERN SWING, SURF-INSTRUMENTAL, HILLBILLY, DOO WOP, GOSPEL, COUNTRY, OLD JAZZ, GYPSY SWING, BOP, BOOGIE WOOGIE, STROLL, MAMBO, CHA CHA CHA, TWIST, JIVE, 50's TEEN POP, MADISON, TANGO
