Nine Pound HammerKentucky Breakdown
By
Frank Meyer,
Contributing Editor
Tuesday, June 1, 2004 @ 12:04 AM
(Acetate)
Fans of Nashville Pussy know that frontman Blaine Cartwright came from another kick ass Southern rock boogie outfit, Nine Pound Hammer. This mean 'n' nasty four piece found Cartwright on guitar while monster thug-hick Scott Luallen assumed vocal duties (and some tasty geetar too) in the form of a much more countrified, stripped down, psychobilly sound. If Nashville Pussy are cleansing their pallets with AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, then NPH pick their teeth with Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Jason and the Scorchers and, of course, the almighty Motorhead. In other words, fans of Reverend Horton Heat may dig this, but they best be warned -- this is much cruder, cruddier, all over nastier stuff, and may scare ya once and awhile.
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Well, never one to let a week go by without rockin', Cartwright got his band of merry pranksters back together again for a series of live shows and this here album while the Pussy was taking a break between, and reinvigorated the Hammers long enough to get them back on the live circuit to promote it. Kentucky Breakdown might be a reunion album of sorts, but make no mistake about it, these fuckers ain't lost an ounce of their piss, power and rage.
From the breakneck openers, "Rub Yer Daddy's Lucky Belly" and "He Done Run Outta Worms," you know these boys ain't fuckin' around and this is on some hillbilly death trip type shit. Sounds like these hellhounds drink gasoline and shit nails to me! Songs like "Dead Dog Highway" and "Zebra Lounge" tell detailed stories of life on the run, riding down the highway, and just generally being a badass. "Drunk Tired & Mean" is hard rockin' anthem if ever there was one, and "Don't Remember Lovin' You Last Night" is a not-so-tender ode to a one night stand (complete with '80s references to Motley Crue and Judas Priest). Cartwright takes the vocals reigns for the hilarious "Chicken Hi, Chicken Lo" and Johnny Cash's "If You Want To Get To Heaven" is given the balls to the wall hard rock work out it so deserves. Yes, nary an ass is left unkicked on this here platter…
Despite the band's raw sound, Kentucky Breakdown has terrific production, courtesy of Dave Barrick, who captures their loud and proud live attack in all of it's glory, yet gives them enough twang and breathing room to assure the little bit country ain't sucked out of the little bit of rock 'n' roll. All in all, a mighty fine mess.
fizzgig - 12/2/2005 9:52:52 PM Incidentally, "If You Want to Get to Heaven" isn't by Johnny Cash. Try Steve Cash, as in Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
iamtheone - 6/9/2004 8:18:05 AM gullible cunt!!!
iamtheone - 6/9/2004 8:17:54 AM yes fizz, i think everyone here at knac knows what "shat" means...so what i chose to fuck with naggs and his choice of vocabulary!!! it's good to know that someone such as yourself surfs from room to room correcting the grammar/definitions of what some ranters post...what are you??? a grade school english teecher(correct me here...i know it'll make you feel good)!!???!! now why don't you do yourself a favor and get back to your room above the family garage and crank up your darkness cd!!!!!
fizzgig - 6/8/2004 10:09:11 PM "Shat" is past tense of shit. Only a dumb caribou-fucking canuck wouldn't know that.
sarabellum - 6/8/2004 10:11:46 AM i wouldn't call it psychobilly, more like cowpunk...
iamtheone - 6/8/2004 9:56:14 AM naggs have sex at a concert??? ha ha.....ha ha ha haaaaaaa!!!!!!
iamtheone - 6/8/2004 9:43:40 AM "SHAT"...what the fuck kinda' newfie-gimpboy lingo is that??? you are one sorry-sick mutherfucker...maybe your community should ease up on the in-breeding--there's a whole world out there beyond your colony!!!
Nadds - 6/8/2004 9:10:03 AM Hhahahhahahaha....thats sick!! No wonder you turned out to be iamthebukkake!!
Nadds - 6/8/2004 9:09:09 AM Ya well not anymore fuckface, your mom is into that sick kinda sex...so I SHAT all over her face.
iamtheone - 6/8/2004 8:07:39 AM and you're still full of fuckin' shit!!!
Nadds - 6/4/2004 9:55:23 AM The other day I took a "Nine Pound" dump...it was pretty fuckin gross!! It wrapped around the bowl 2 or 3 times.....fuckin loaf from HELL !!
bhambaron - 6/3/2004 6:05:01 PM And don't forget The Meteors, the all time kings of psychobilly.
The_True_Jackie - 6/3/2004 12:13:52 AM You want good Psychobilly....try The Cramps, Flametrick Subs, Southern Culture on the Skids (SCOTS) and of course the mighty Reverend Horton Heat!!!
The_Space_Lord - 6/2/2004 2:11:28 PM Saskatoon's Wash 'N Slosh is pretty much touted as the place where Nashville Pussy was concocted. Back in 1991 when Nine Pound Hammer played there the then-aspiring med student Ruyter Suys covered the band for the local campus paper and having interviewed Blaine Cartwright after the gig, who later persuaded her to ditch university, Nashville Pussy was born.
ThundersStruck - 6/2/2004 1:09:56 PM
nodeerforamonth I saw them back in '94 or '95 and I haven't heard of the Humper's in years.
Fans of Nashville Pussy know that frontman Blaine Cartwright came from another kick ass Southern rock boogie outfit, Nine Pound Hammer. This mean 'n' nasty four piece found Cartwright on guitar while monster thug-hick Scott Luallen assumed vocal duties (and some tasty geetar too) in the form of a much more countrified, stripped down, psychobilly sound. If Nashville Pussy are cleansing their pallets with AC/DC and Rose Tattoo, then NPH pick their teeth with Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Jason and the Scorchers and, of course, the almighty Motorhead. In other words, fans of Reverend Horton Heat may dig this, but they best be warned -- this is much cruder, cruddier, all over nastier stuff, and may scare ya once and awhile. 
