Various Artists
Hotter Than Hell! An Injection of Psychobilly Madness
(Hairball 8)
A fun-filled collection of songs from mostly California bands (with a few exceptions) reveling in everything redneck and male. Still have not been able to understand the California white-boy mangled-perception obsession with Southern culture, but I'm sure it has something to do with loud guns, cheap whisky, and Daisy Duke's breasts. In fact there's a song on here about big titties-Barnyard Ballers' "Silicon City." There's also yet another cover of "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonight" on this, contributed by Los Gatos Locos. I think this whole rebirth of rockabilly must have started when girlies like L7 took over the LA punk scene and turned it from an anti-everything Nazi-punk frat boy collective into the free-for-all the scene is now-maybe the same thing'll happen to rockabilly in five or six years. I'm glad to see that the upright bass has made such an amazing comeback-just wish more people could bang on it more like The Blacks' Gina Black than a transplanted punk bass guitar player.
Holly Day