Mitch Ryder was the leader of the Detroit Wheels, one of the Motor City's finest blue-eyed soul outfits. After they split he hooked up with future Alice Cooper/Lou Reed sideman Steve Hunter and reunited Wheels' drummer Johnny Badanjek. →[More:] They cut an amazing album (the most expensive in my vinyl collection, I paid $40 for it and it was a bargain*). The two best songs on it were covers: a version of the Velvet Underground's "Rock & Roll," that made Lou Reed say "That's what I wanted the song to sound like in the first place," and a thunderous run through the Stones' "Gimme Shelter."

Seems like we could all use a lift and this might do the trick. Here's hoping.

*so I don't hand these out to just anybody, but my fellow bunnies? hey, what the hell, you get my treasures...