HONKY Balls Out Inn Small Stone
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With songs like “Love to Smoke Your Weed,” “Good Pipe,”
Walkin’ on
Moonshine,” “Plugs, Mugs, and Jugs,” and “Buckle Bunny,” and, you know,
the fact that the band is called Honky, for Christ’s sake, you pretty much
know what you’re gittin’ here. What you may not know, though, is that
Honky is the creation of ex-Butthole Surfers bass player, J.D. Pinkus.
Pinkus has always had the South on his side, and wrangles the best and
worst of it here with Honky, trading in the Surfer’s psychonaught acid
rock freak for a more whiskey flowin’, shit-kickin’ good ol’ boy country
rock freak. Balls Out Inn contains the right amount sweet slide, sour
mash, and fuzzy rock to get you up and swingin’, and you could shout out
names like ZZ Top, Allman Brothers, Ironboss, Lamont,
Antler, Dixie Witch,
or, you know, any white trash, blue collar, grass roots rock n’ roll band
and I’d be cool with that. There’s definitely a Big Sugar influence here
as well, which isn’t surprising considering Gordie Johnson appears on
three tracks. Anyway, if you find yourself at cockfight at three in the
morning or an out-of-the-way dive where the band plays behind a chain link
fence and all the redneck, um, honkies in the joint are splitting
barstools over each other’s heads, then you know Pinkus and his band
aren’t far off.
With songs like “Love to Smoke Your Weed,” “Good Pipe,”
Walkin’ on
Moonshine,” “Plugs, Mugs, and Jugs,” and “Buckle Bunny,” and, you know,
the fact that the band is called Honky, for Christ’s sake, you pretty much
know what you’re gittin’ here. What you may not know, though, is that
Honky is the creation of ex-Butthole Surfers bass player, J.D. Pinkus.
Pinkus has always had the South on his side, and wrangles the best and
worst of it here with Honky, trading in the Surfer’s psychonaught acid
rock freak for a more whiskey flowin’, shit-kickin’ good ol’ boy country
rock freak. Balls Out Inn contains the right amount sweet slide, sour
mash, and fuzzy rock to get you up and swingin’, and you could shout out
names like ZZ Top, Allman Brothers, Ironboss, Lamont,
Antler, Dixie Witch,
or, you know, any white trash, blue collar, grass roots rock n’ roll band
and I’d be cool with that. There’s definitely a Big Sugar influence here
as well, which isn’t surprising considering Gordie Johnson appears on
three tracks. Anyway, if you find yourself at cockfight at three in the
morning or an out-of-the-way dive where the band plays behind a chain link
fence and all the redneck, um, honkies in the joint are splitting
barstools over each other’s heads, then you know Pinkus and his band
aren’t far off.