VIDEO OF THE DAY: “WORKING GIRL’S GUITAR” BY ROSIE FLORES

Rosie Flores, the Rockabilly Filly, has been making sweet music for nearly five decades, since she was a teenage punk, but she still felt she had something to prove on her latest record, Working Girl’s Guitar (Bloodshot, October 2012). “This world’s a noisy place / Politicians in your face / So I don’t have a choice / I gotta raise my voice / I won’t apologize / for rockin’ through the night / Shoot my rhythm to the crowd / I’m little but I’m loud,” the sixty-two-year-old lifelong Texan declares on the album, on which she plays all the guitar parts in a determined effort to show off her impressive skills, which date back to her time as leader of Rosie and the Screamers and the Screamin’ Sirens. Incorporating infectious surf, rockabilly, pop, rock, country, folk, and blues, Flores mixes original numbers with such covers as the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” Elvis Presley’s “Too Much,” and Janis Martin’s “Drugstore Rock and Roll” and is joined by 1960s pop star Bobby Vee on “Love Must Have Passed Me By.” (Bobby’s son Tommy plays drums in Flores’s band.) On November 14, Flores will be at Mercury Lounge celebrating the release of Working Girl’s Guitar as well as paying tribute to one of her heroes, Martin, the “Female Elvis” who died five years ago at the age of sixty-seven. Flores, who coproduced Martin’s swan song, The Blanco Sessions (Cow Island, September 2012), will team up with opening act Marti Brom to perform several Martin tunes in addition to their own tunes.