The Batlord

The Batlord Learns to Like Country...Maybe: Part VI

Jason and the Nashville Scorchers: Reckless Country Soul EP/Fervor EP

Alright, I'm combining these two albums for this review, since I can't find a lot of the songs here on Youtube. Balls. Also, Jason and the Nashville Scorchers would drop the "Nashville" from their name after their debut EP, but I refuse to call them Jason and the Scorchers. That sounds like the name of some generic punk band. "Jason and the Nashville Scorchers" has character and makes it sound like the band couldn't give less of a fuck if some people are put off by the name. Anyways...




This could just as easily be considered as much punk as country. Some songs are more one thing than the other, but in general the division is pretty straight down the line. If Johnny Cash was twenty years old and living in a London squat in 1977 when he first saw the Sex Pistols, then he might have formed this band. This band uses punk to inject some serious energy into some rough and ready country. This is just pure fun. Nothing particularly complicated, though they do know how to break out some melody for a ballad now and again. That's not to say that this is just some two bit punk rock band with a few twangy riffs. These dudes know how to write some truly world class songs that have more energy and charm than a wizard/witch gangbang. If you're driving down a country road and you wanna wake up the rednecks all across the county then you could do worse than this.

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