Get Your Rocks Off: Gringo Star Rocks On

Atlanta-based quartet Gringo Star released their debut album All Y’all last month, and it’s a good thing they did because our iPod needed an injection of “Big Beat/Psychedelic/Southern Rock” music, as they classify their sound on MySpace. We’re not really sure what that means, but we’re fans of it. Not only will their jangly music charm your ears, but the guys were nice enough to provide you with a playlist so large we had to break it into two installments. After the jump, Gringo Star’s favorite tunes vol. 1…

  The Falcons—“I Found A Love”

  Sam Cooke—“You Send Me”

  The Animals—“Bury My Body”

  The Buzzcocks—“Everybody’s Happy Nowadays”

  Serge Gainsbourg—“Bonnie and Clyde”

  Pink Floyd—“Lucifer Sam”

  Squirrel Nut Zippers—“Ghost of Stephen Foster”

  The Marvelettes—“To Strong to Be Strung Along”

  Link Wray—“The Outlaw”

  Johnny Cash—“Sunday Morning Coming Down”

  Bob Dylan—“Tombstone Blues”

  Buffalo Springfield—“Broken Arrow”

  Smokey Robinson and The Miracles—“Shop Around”

  Outkast—“We Love Deez Hoez”

  Dead Kennedys—“Holiday In Cambodia”