Nashville Pussy From Hell to Texas
by Justin Gaines
Staff Writer
Finish your beer then smash the bottle over your neighbor’s head; Nashville Pussy is back with another drunken brawl of a rock & roll album. From Hell to Texas is the band’s fifth album, and it picks up right where Get Some left off (which is to say, on the barroom floor in a pool of beer, blood and broken teeth).
Nashville Pussy is nothing if not reliable. You know you’re going to get an album full of Southern rocking odes to hard drinking and hard living, and that’s exactly what they deliver on From Hell to Texas. Listening to an album like this, especially after a bunch of intellectual progressive metal or Journey-sounding AOR albums (not that there’s anything wrong with those) is the perfect way to shake the cobwebs from your head. You hear road anthems like “Speed Machine” and “Give Me a Hit Before I Go” and booze rockers “Drunk Driving Man” and “Dead Men Can’t Get Drunk” and you’re reminded why rock & roll was created in the first place.
It’s not the kind of album you’ll want to listen to very often, but just the same there will be times where only an album like From Hell to Texas will do. Sometimes you absolutely have to hear some loud, nasty, whiskey-soaked rock & roll, and that’s what Nashville Pussy has been delivering for more than a decade.
Lineup:
Blaine Cartwright: Guitars, Vocals
Ruyter Suys: Guitars
Karen Cuda: Bass
Jeremy Thompson: Drums
Label: SPV
Track Listing:
1. Speed Machine
2. From Hell to Texas
3. Drunk Driving Man
4. Lazy Jesus
5. I’m So High
6. Ain’t Your Business
7. Dead Men Can’t Get Drunk
8. Late Great USA
9. Pray for the Devil
10. Why Why Why
11. Stone Cold Down
12. Give Me a Hit Before I Go
Online: Official site
Hardrock Haven Rating: 7/10