Jeremy L. White and Ronnie Younkins have released their CD Lack of Luxury. They rock'n'roll on eleven self-composed songs. Produced by Gilby Clarke and Ronnie Younkins, featuring Brent Fitz on drums.
" [...]The sound is pure Stones meets Johnny Thunders rock 'n' roll, straight ahead, no chaser. If you took Some Girls and Que Sera Sera and mushed them together you’d get Lack Of Luxury, an 11-song cocktail of whiskey blues, gypsy glam swagger, and hard rock riffing. Get it?
[...]Transformation Man is just pure ’78 Stones ala When The Whip Comes Down or Shattered, right down to talking verses and phased out guitars. There’s also a lot of that good ol’ fashioned barroom junk rock ala Johnny Thunders [...] in the forms of Can’t Let You get Away From Me or the VERY New York Dolls sounding California (can you say Showdown???). The best tune here though is definitely Smokescreen, a sleazy, funky little number with a way cool falsetto chorus ala Jagger or even Lenny Kravitz or something.
Ronnie plays understated leads that basically begins at Chuck Berry and ends at Joe Perry and it works. You get the sense that he could scream through a lead at top speed if he wanted but that he’s taking a backseat to the song, the feel and the vibe.[...] Ronnie has obviously decided to return to the good old fashioned sound that inspired him in the first place
but also happens to play the shit out of the six string. Check out the blazin’ leads on Send Me Back Home. Meanwhile, Jeremy plays a mean blues harp and definitely has that junkie blooze vocal style down pat. [...]" **** Frank Meyer, Editor In Chief knac.com 01/04/2002