I have Billy Riley, Johnny Burnette, Vincent and Holly stuff around and love listening to it, and doo wop is always around too. I guess it's just a matter of taste, it's not like Peter Green (or John Mayal or Alexis Korner or Led Zep or the Stones or whoever) made fun or exaggerated his influences, I wouldn't have like that either. Half of Kiln House I just will never listen to again and avoid. The Elmore James mimicry I can take a bit better. To me Spencer is kind of glorified impersonator on the early albums, no wonder he couldn't carry the load of contributing, he basically ran out of things to imitate or make fun of. I think originality is more clever but I tend to dislike cover tunes that aren't really adding anything new anyway, just as I thought that cover of the hit For Your Love was pretty pointless and Mission Bell as well. Better to take something that was not working and make it work or do a distinctively different version. I like the early Fleetwood Mac blues stuff which is original by Green and Kirwan and skip the covers. If it were up to people like Spencer was when he was young I suspect we will only ever have imitations like with all the boy or girl pop bands and continual grungey muck you can't tell apart but know they are angry in the suburbs about something.
