It's Like They Buried Elvis in Pet Semetary

Bloodshot Bill
Trashy, Greasy, Rockin’ Billy
Flying Saucer Records

Somewhere in the early 1950’s country music went feral and became a breed of its own, called rockabilly. A mixture of mountain folk music, country swing, electric guitars and a very, very bad attitude rockabilly then went from bad to worse when it came in contact with the late 1970’s London punk scene and evolved into psychobilly.

Montreal’s Bloodshot Bill is a great example of that high energy country punk ‘billy: onstage the man simultaneously plays rockabilly riffs on his guitar, howls and squeals about booze and faithless women while keeping rhythm by stomping on the kickdrum. He’s like a wild handsome Elvis corpse risen from the grave, or ‘prison handsome’ as we decided over beers last night.

Trashy, Greasy, Rockin’ Billy has that handmade, rough-edged feel of the early rock ‘n roll records when truck drivers made them for their mothers on their lunch breaks. If you’re an audiophile with pretensions of being a sound engineer you’ll weep but if you like guitars fuelled by amps with broken tubes this greasy rocker is for you.

xoxo,

MVL