Hey, did anybody else see “12 Ounce Mouse” on Adult Swim a month-or-so ago at, like, 1 AM? I’m starting to think I hallucinated the whole thing. From what I remember, it was just scribbled line drawings on notebook paper. I think the title mouse and a shark robbed a liquor store and then killed a bunch of people. It was jacked, Jack. Anyway, our Kentucky truckin’ friends in Nine Pound Hammer wrote the theme song, which is a pretty sweet deal for ‘em, especially if it becomes a big hit. If it really was just scribbles and stick figures, than it probably won’t be a hit, but who knows? Maybe this here slab of vintage whomp-ass’ll be the big break-through, anyway. It’s stuff the fellas recorded back in 1989-1990, around there somewhere, including covers by the Dead Boys ( a rousing “Ain’t Nothin’ To Do”), the Stones (“Dead Flowers”), and Johnny Cash (“Folsom Prison Blues”), and a whole greasy griddle’s worth of original riff-punk scorchers about…well, I guess “Headbanging Stockboy” pretty much sums it up. There’s two brand new songs, too, and a new (bad ass!) Dwight Yoakum cover, “This Drinking Will Kill Me”. If you haven’t heard Nine LB before, they sound pretty much exactly what you’d expect two Nashville Pussy dudes, and two dudes that woulda been in Nashville Pussy, if only they were born with big tits, to sound like – fast, mean, and boozy. And possibly cartoon-y. Drink up. __________________________________________________

-Sleazegrinder