McPherson plans rollin’ good times at GAMH

JD McPherson lost his job as a high school teacher for spending too much time trying to introduce his students to the history of rock music.

With plenty of free time on his hands, McPherson began writing the tunes that gave his debut album a stripped-down economy, weaving the familiar strands of rockabilly, early rock and ’50s R&B into something decisively modern.

The cover of his second record, “Let the Good Times Roll,” features the fangs and claws of a grizzly bear. McPherson and his band live up to the image with a disc full of hungry, snarling rock ’n’ roll, played with a primal urgency.