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Brian Setzer: Stray Cats No More

Jeff Tamarkin, Creem, June 1986

BRIAN SETZER has been keeping a mental list. Everyone he's spoken to lately seems to think his first post-Stray Cats album, The Knife Feels Like Justice, sounds like someone else. "Let's see," he says, counting them off on his fingers, "I've heard Buffalo Springfield, Creedence, the Byrds..."

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