Freeloader

Freeloader is four old-timers from the Boston music scene who have recombined in endless band permutations. Nat Freedberg is the singer, songwriter and guitarist. Jim Janota is the drummer (Nat and Jim played together in the Upper Crust), Charles Hansen is the lead guitar player, and Jim Haggerty plays bass. Freedberg's previous bands were the Flies, the Titanics, the Satanics, and the Upper Crust. He is known to be a proficient songwriter who comes at rock 'n' roll from a devious and underhanded angle.

Janota is widely admired as the best rock drummer in Boston, a distinction which has done absolutely nothing for him in the way of tangible reward. Likewise, Haggerty is in great demand on the Boston circuit, feverishly holding down the bass in multiple bands like a man trying to fold a tarp on a windy day. Hansen is a world-class guitarist, teaches at Berklee, and plays in several bands, but he too could only loosely be termed a billionaire.

Freedberg released a solo album last February called Better Late Than Never. It was and remains—even with the passage of a couple of months—a fine album. But he continued to write songs that were more "rock" and didn't really fit the style of the recently released album. He returned to the studio with three-time Grammy winning producer Ducky Carlisle and recruited the aforementioned hard-bitten rock veterans to jam out the songs.

Basically, the crew who made this record is the musical equivalent of the Dirty Dozen or the Magnificent Seven; an assemblage of absolutely non-fuck-giving old-timers chawing cigar stubs, ready to wreak havoc with time-tested, unsentimental efficiency.

There are two covers on the record, "Rag Doll," which was originally done by the Four Seasons, and which in Freeloader's hands sounds like it might have been the B-side to "Cherry Bomb" by the Runaways; and Billy Preston's funk classic "Will It Go Round in Circles," which the band duly reduces to a blunt guitar-rock cudgel.

RIYL: The Upper Crust, The Supersuckers, The Bags, The Titanics, The Neighborhoods, Rhino Bucket
TRY: #1, 2, 3, 6, 9
DIRTY: #4

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