What else can I do

I listen to music in some form or another every day, and at times all that I want—all that I need—is a groove. As much as an exquisite melody, a surprising bridge, and chord- and key-changes can send me, sometimes sheer propulsion is enough.

The Rugbys formed in Louisville, Kentucky in the mid 1960s out of the remnants of a couple of other local bands, that regional Big Bang that confounds astronomers by happening in small towns everywhere. Their debut single, a cover of Sir Douglas Quintet’s “Y...