Where Are The Rock 'N' Roll Girls? (2025)

New EP released Jan. 24! Contains 3 new originals and 2 covers.

Where Are The Rock 'N' Roll Girls? contains 5 new songs, including:

A faster, power pop cover of the Hodads' fan favorite "Rock 'N' Roll Girls", with Patrick Crawford on lead guitar
"Victoria's Secret", sort of a pop song (think of a louder Fountains Of Wayne) featuring Walt Austin on keyboards
A big beat, glam cover of the Ramones' "Suzy Is A Headbanger", with monster guitar from "Evil" Jim Wright
Destiny, leather, snakes, guillotines, and more!

Tracks

(Where Are The) Rock 'N' Roll Girls
Victoria's Secret
A Date With Destiny
Suzy Is A Headbanger
I Wanna Play With Alice

Credits

Steve "Crawdaddy" Crawford - Vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, other noises.
Patrick A. Crawford - Lead guitar on track 1.
Walt Austin - Lead keyboards on track 2.
Jim Wright - Lead guitar on track 4.

Recorded & produced by Crawdad Crash.

Tracks 1 written by Steven R. Hensley; published by Crawcophony Music Publishing (BMI).
Tracks 2, 3, 5 written by S. D. Crawford; published by Crawcophony Music Publishing (BMI).
Track 4 written by Douglas Colvin, John Cummings, Thomas Erdelyi & Jeffrey Hyman; published by WC Music Corp.

Album artwork by Margaret M. Belin.

Released Jan. 24, 2025.

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Crawdaddy's Notes

(Where Are The) Rock 'N' Roll Girls

This is one of my favorite songs the Hodads recorded after I left the band — written by my buddy and bass player Steve Hensley of the Hodads, Buckofive, and Terry Funk Railroad. I thought it might sound good played faster with a power pop feel to it. Hope you like it. That's my son Patrick on lead guitar; he's added tasty licks to over a dozen of my songs the last few years.

Victoria's Secret

There's always that mysterious new kid that everyone wants to know about. When I was in high school, we really did have a new girl named Vicki one year, but this isn't about her or any particular person. I was going for a sound reminiscent of Fountains Of Wayne, but everything I do turns out louder! So, I enlisted the help of my friend Walt Austin to provide the cool keyboards. In addition to his own stuff, he's played on songs by Day By The River, Static..., Slightly Famous Somebodies, and others.

A Date With Destiny

I remember going to the Dairy Queen one time, and the cute young lady who helped me had a name tag that said "Destiny". The idea for this song popped in my head immediately, although it was years before I did anything with it. After the initial 11th chord, this has a roots rock feel to it, but it ends up being sort of bouncy and jazzy.

Suzy Is A Headbanger

The Fontanels used to cover this, along with many other Ramones songs. I thought it would sound more "headbanging" if it were slowed down a little, had a big Joan Jett / Gary Glitter drum beat, and had a monster guitar. That's "Evil Jim" (Jim Wright) of Elzig, Hodads, Road Hawgs, Spectremen, Evils, Bigfoot, Asphalt Blaster, Los Chucacobras, etc., on lead guitar.

I Wanna Play With Alice

I was playing golf with my son and telling him about yet another goofy idea I had for a song (hopefully to be on a future release). I had recently seen an Alice Cooper show, and they were awesome — a fantastic experience (as expected), and Nita Strauss was incredible. I somehow mentioned that show and that Alice Cooper is apparently a big golfer. Then, I said, "I wanna play with Alice" — and then the whole song sprang into my head: "When school's out... I wanna play with Alice!"