Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Flamin' Groovies principals Cyril Jordan and Roy Loney will reunite
for the first time since 1971 at the eighth Ponderosa Stomp
festival, to be held April 28-29 at New Orleans' House of
Blues.
The Flamin' Groovies formed in San Francisco in 1965 and set a
template for the nascent power pop movement with their 1969 debut,
"Supersnazz," and its 1970 follow-up, "Flamingo."
Loney left the Flamin' Groovies after the album "Teenage Head," and
the Groovies were largely dormant until 1976, when Chris Wilson
replaced Loney. That year's album "Shake Some Action" spawned a
cult classic single of the same name, and was the group's only
release to ever reach The Billboard 200 (No. 142).
The band was intermittently active until disbanding for good in
1992. Jordan now plays in the band Magic Christian. At Ponderosa
Stomp, Jordan and Loney will be backed by New York rock outfit the
A-Bones.
In recent years, Ponderosa Stomp has engineered several unlikely
reunions, including the first performance in 40 years from Texas
garage band the Green Fuz and the first pairing of Howlin' Wolf
musicians Jody Williams, Hubert Sumlin and Henry Gray for the first
time since 1955.
The 2009 lineup features Wanda Jackson, Dan Penn and Bobby Emmons,
Howard Tate, Otis Clay, ? and the Mysterians, Carl Mann and the
James Blood Ulmer Trio.
