The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds
of The Reverend Horton Heat
Year: 1993
Format: Digital
Grade: B+
Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. It's the holy trinity of rock 'n' roll and it's what The Reverend Horton Heat's The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds is full of.
Horton and company break down the door with "Wiggle Stick," scratching two of the three from the list in a bluesy brawler. Later, "Bales of Cocaine" humorously makes The Reverend into a drug dealer: "Now I am a rich man, but I'm still a farmer, too / I sold my farm in Texas, bought a farm down in Peru." "Beer:30," as the title might suggest, helps the cause.
Full-Custom Gospel invites you to live in the lap of its depravity, served on a boozy, bluesy platter of country, punk and psychobilly, a frenetic take on rockabilly.
The closer, "Gin and Tonic Blues" dissolves into complete drug-soaked weirdness, Horton's voice sounding hopelessly lost as time slows and expands.
Full-Custom Gospel travels back to rock's roots to drag it into its trippy, dirty future. What a fun ride.
Tomorrow's entry: Heartless B-------, Arrow
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