Amazon is offering the BBC compendium of the Kinks, and the site has, actually, some interesting reviews from just "folks". Barns Blank was especially influenced by the music of the Kinks, as were the rest of the Blank Brothers. On the first B.B. CD is a cut authored by Lieber and Stoller, the legendary duo who wrote many of Elvis' early tunes, among many others. One is
I'm A Hog For You Baby, which is arguably the best of the best.
The early, pre-Kinks version of this by Davies is totally wimpy and lacking, however (the cut is not on the above CD), but in fairness, extant recordings of that time did not indicate at all what the Kinks were cabable of doing.
Without tooting any horns (maybe a little bleat), The Blank Brothers' version of "Hog" is the definitive one, not overly driving, but substantial in form. It is not available for download or streaming because of the rights issues involved with royalty payments, but it IS on the CD, and it alone is worth the price.
