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WHISKEY DAREDEVILS |
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"The factory shut down and they took my job down to Mexico / I said I spoke a little Spanish so they told me 'Well, Adios' / At first I was real down but then I just said ' Oh what the Hell' / Now I'm standing on my feet behind the counter at the downtown Taco Bell".
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-Stu Gibson |
The
Whiskey Daredevils are 3/4 of The Cowslingers who I
really need to investigate on the basis of this summer shellshocker of
longgone lonesome but livin it up in Laredo and London loud, lascivious and quite
lovely countryboogie'billy punky trash garage gunk. While the title may be
tongue in cheek on a debut it makes sense when you hear then hail then
hoot 'n' holler 'bout the consummate brilliance burning a barndance into
your brain, brandishing tattoos inked in bourbon. I gotta, just gotta
spill my wine in honour of something that takes me back to those ol'
smilin' Satellites (the 'Dan Takes Five' bucket o' blood beer bottle in
the gut BlasterBilly bastard 'Mickey's Bigmouth'; Ricki Richards and
Johnny Winter slugging at each other in the gutter outside some riotin'
roadhouse slidefest closer 'Greasy Box' - it's actually kinda like
Jeff
Healey too but y'know the analogy don't work!), those ol' smilin' but
rather more scowlin' Scorchers ('Jesus Walks Beside Me') and takes a
cheeky chunk of 'Psychotic Reaction' for a Jack 'n' Coke on 'Waiting For
You', all the while making me crack a wry reminiscing smile at lovelorn
barfly tale on 'Ida Jane' for times trying to catch a grin as I plummet
into gallons of gin. At other times it just plain makes me laugh
dancingly, ayuss, and vice versa - 'Waylon Jennings Shower' and 'Ironic
Trucker Hat' (because of which his trustfund chum has 'more chicks than
when he looked just like Mike Ness'). 'Don't Go' is a lovingly recreated
hark, or howl, back to classic 50's Rock'n'Roll of the kind touched on by
early Stray Cats and Los Lobos in the 80's, and possibly takes the chequered flag here, moreso for it's quite gorgeous, as the girl you lost,
or lusted after (or both!) in the 5th year. Scotty Moore, T-Bone Walker
guitar break. But really all these tracks are first among equals and only really equalled in my favours by
the simply splendicious Shack*Shakers right now.