Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon

Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon is the third studio album by English rock band Status Quo, released in August 1970.

The band began experimenting with a new sound when they hired Australian singer-songwriter Carl Groszmann to write a song for them.

The song, remarked Rossi, “was the [first] to feature our soon-to-be trademark boogie shuffle” and became one of the most popular numbers in their live set.

In October 1970, two months after the album's release, the band released another non-album single, the Rossi/Young composition "In My Chair", with the non-album B-side "Gerdundula" (written while in Germany by Rossi and Young under the pseudonyms Manston and James, with a title reportedly inspired by their German friends Gerd and Ula).

"As with Dog of Two Head from the year after, this record is transitional: it's the man-steps towards their interchangeable album phase of pure-denim-heads-down-choogle, and never gets boring.