NRBQ - Workshop

The wildly eclectic New Rhythm & Blues Quintet, better known to its worldwide legion of adoring fans as NRBQ (or just the Q!), is the only band on the planet that can play rockabilly, bar-band blooze, Beatles sound-alikes and Sun Ra-style free jazz in the same set and remain standing. The Q immediately followed Scraps with 1973's equally terrific Workshop. Gadler had departed, reducing the Quintet to its customary foursome, but the band never missed a beat with an album that featured the hypnotically chugging "Come On If You're Coming," the mouth-watering "RC Cola and a Moon Pie" and the ultra-prophetic "Get That Gasoline Blues."