Back in the Day, 2006
Hillbilly Casino
Sucker Punched
(Self-issued)
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Hillbilly Casino was never intended as hidebound. During 2008's Buy In DVD, hip-chained tumbler/mic guru Nic Roulette spelled out the combo's ethos: While roots musics gush through members' circulatory systems and have spattered innumerable of the group's stage boards, innovation, too, has formative pull. Syd Nathan and Norman Petty didn't use Rudy Vallee-era technology, after all.
Reverence for both Ernest Tubb commoness and Johnny R. chordal blitzkrieg were etched with bold-font bravado. Billybo-butcher Ronnie Crutcher pared deftly and slammed out broadsides that evidenced forward-and-backward knowledge of the Americana repertoire.
Each Sucker Punched portion huffed with youthful freshness and an audacity possible only for dynamite-in-every-paw roustabouts. One was as knocked flat by the economical storminess as songcraft several levels above the standard. Unanticipated permutations, rendered with brawn nobody better look at funny, posted notice that a uniquely multi-faceted proposition had taken up jaw-jutting residence beneath spotlights.
(At the time, Blue Suede News magnate Marc Bristol noted many tracks were co-written by Nic and Kenny Taylor. The two had previously locked shoulders in the Blue Moon Boys.)
Glad tidings are bellowed with sudsy breath: Today - with band personnel a bit reshuffled - Hillbilly Casino have scaled to the lofty height promised by this handle-with-asbestos-gloves debut waxing.
Recommended: "Plain to See," "Pretty Baby," "Shoe Leather," "Smashed Down Flat," "Way Past Gone," "Filler Up," "PBR," "Come on Camille," "Voodoo Doll," "Devil Comes to Town," "Sooner than Today," "Mimes of the Old West," "County Jail," "Blanche's Song"
Videos: "Plain to See" (live) "Shoe Leather" (live) "Way Past Gone" "Mimes of the Old West" "Blanche's Song" (backstage)
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