Kiss, Motorhead, and Ted Nugent are just a few of the influences that come to mind when a revving motorcycle segues into a driving AC/DC-influenced guitar riff and Nashville Pussy does what it does best; sleazy, high-octane Southern hard rock with attitude to spare. HIGH AS HELL, its second album, delivers the goods, as illustrated by "She's Got the Drugs," with its munching-on-glass vocals and Sid and Nancy-style love story.
The title track boasts a foot-stomping, Texas blues-rock groove, while "Go to Hell" puts a new twist on country music heartbreak in a grisly depiction of a man catching his wife in an adulterous affair. "You Ain't Right" finds the song's hero ending a bitter relationship, and Nashville Pussy has fun with handclaps, recalling early Aerosmith, with "Rock and Roll Outlaw." The self-explanatory "Blowjob From a Rattlesnake" tells of a run-in with the law leading to an disagreeable prison stay, while the closest thing to a manifesto comes to life in "Drive," where bad deeds are rationalized as just "...different ideas of fun."
Recorded at Studio Litho, Seattle, Washington.
Nashville Pussy: Blaine Cartwright (vocals, guitar); Ruyter Suys (guitar); Corey Parks (bass); Jeremy Thompson (drums).
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Magnet (8-9/00, p.87) - "...12 generous helpings of white-trash bliss....somewhere in between AC/DC and a Southern-fried Motorhead....[It] is the sonic equivalent of a tornado in a trailer park..."
Magnet (8-9/00, p.87) - "...12 generous helpings of white-trash bliss....somewhere in between AC/DC and a Southern-fried Motorhead....[It] is the sonic equivalent of a tornado in a trailer park..."
CMJ (5/22/00, p.3) - "...Opens up a nasty can of punk-metal whup-ass....the band's Motorhead-reverant debut [is] looser, more Southern-fried twin-guitar squeal....It's about time someone brought rock back to where it started, and [they] know it's all below the belt."
Nashville Pussy - High As Hell Songs
High As Hell Music Review
Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)    The Definitive NP Release
The breakthrough happens on Nashville PUssy's second album. Blaine Cartwright is no longer trying to relive his Nine Pound Hammer days, and, unlike the debut, the music actually lives up to all the AC?DC, Skynyrd and motorhead comparisons. Gloriously trashy, and yet very catchy (also unlike parts of the debut), and with tongues planted firmly in cheek. Of the four NP releases thus far, I have to give High As Hell the nod as the pick of the litter, although Get Some! is very close. The closest thing to a weak track here is "Piece of Ass." The best: "Struttin' Cock," "Wrong Side Of The GUn," "Go to Hell," "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" (Rose Tattoo cover, in case you didn't know) and 'Drive."
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 Good earlier Nashville Pussy Album
I really like this album and being an LP is a big plus.
I love the sound of vinyl records anytime.
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