A surprisingly traditional rockabilly set by the Head Cat won’t completely erase the fact that singer Lemmy normally fronts Motorhead, the most tooth-rattling loud band in the history of the known universe. But it’s a start. Cop a listen to what that gravelly voice sounds like without a wall of distortion. The trio’s rounded out by the Stray Cats’ Slim Jim Phantom and the Lonesome Spurs’ Danny B. Harvey, and they swing.

This article appears in May 9-15, 2007.