Hillbilly Booze Party Volume 1

by Various Artists

Hillbilly's logic states "it's best to buy more liquor than you need, it's better to be drunk than sober!" Atomicat Records' logic decrees "you can never have enough music in your collection!" With Atomicat Records (ACCD138) Hillbilly Booze Party 01 Pink Elephants, you can raise a glass as the first song is played; by song twenty-eight, you will need to raise your drunken body off the floor! The songs are not for those uptown and sophisticated people, these are songs for; dancing, having a hillbilly wing ding do and getting s**t faced! There is one title from 1940 then the remaining drunk-a-hillbilly songs are from 1948 to 1960. The Hillbilly and Western Swing music is up-tempo and countrified, and the album's party mood kicks off with information from Johnny Tyler and The Riders Of The Rio Grande who in western tradition sing "It Ain't Far To The Bar", King Sterling and His Blue Grass Melody Boys sing about Too Many Taverns, and the tone and alcohol-soaked flavour of all the vocal songs on the album. There are strong warnings against indulging in alcohol abuse; Eddie Marshall and His Trail Dusters' advice are, Buddy Stay Off Of That Wine. Lattie Moore knows every time he buys a bottle of brew he is Driving Nails into his coffin, Cecil Bowman's life is on the road to ruin from the Curse Of Wine, Hank Penny through his first version of Bloodshot Eyes informs his gin-soaked lady about the effect the demon drink is having on her eyes, and it is too late for the Georgia Crackers whom the next day are suffering from the Hangover Boogie.