Reverend Horton Heat the Bedroom Again

It may not be possible to give The Reverent Horton Rut enough credit for his contributions to revitalizing the roots of American music. But since he never reached the mainstream level of success like a Brian Setzer for example, he never seems to get his proper due. To his loyal fans though, Jim Heath is nothing short of a guitar god (with his own signature Gretsch model to evidence it). He's arguably the biggest and nigh-influential name in modern day rockabilly/psychobilly music, was ane of the first to expose the parallels between rockabilly, land, and punk, and deserves a pat on the back for bringing out opening bands like Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Reverend Peyton's Large Damn Band, Hank3, and The Goddamn Gallows merely to name a few.

The 90's is when The Reverend Horton Estrus established himself at the forefront of the independent roots globe. Out of the gate with the band's debut album Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em, they proved they were somehow cooler than the punks, and better players to boot, and as authentic as the honky-tonkers. Then when the swing era came in the belatedly 90's, The Rev was in one case again ahead of the curve, releasing Information technology'due south Martini Time in the middle of 1996 right before the revival took stride. The Rev's well-nigh well-rounded anthology might have been 2000's Spend A Night In The Box. Already established as an influential force in both the guitar, punk, and rockabilly worlds, Jim Heath showed he could also be a noteworthy songwriter with tracks like "Information technology Hurts Your Daddy Bad" and the countrified "The Sleeping accommodation Again."

Simply the 2000's found The Reverend Horton Heat somewhat afloat directionally, despite reaching new heights in both touring and popularity. The Rev was finally gaining some recognition, bolstered by a prominent advent of the signature song "Psychobilly Freakout" in the wildly-popular video game Guitar Hero. Simply maybe the money usurped some of the muster for the music, and studio offerings like 2002's Lucky 7 and 2004'due south Revival felt a little forced despite a few notable moments, like the music wasn't flowing, and they were trying to reach for the magic they had captured the decade before by just trying to play fast and hard.

Long-time drummer Scott Churilla left the ring in 2006, replaced by Paul Simmons formerly of The Supersuckers. Jim Heath started a side project featuring blues, jazz, and rock standards called Reverend Organdrum that was considerably more sedated than the Horton Heat experience, leaving some to wonder if the days of stage leaps off of Jimbo's upright bass were over. Hey, our favorite rockers all accept to age at some point. Crowds went from moshing punks to blueish collars and teenagers who knew The Rev through Guitar Hero first.

And then here it is in 2014, and though Horton Heat has already established himself as the King of Psychobilly and a god of the rockabilly earth, there'due south the sense that the music needed a new start. But if you venture too far away from the established audio, you solicit sideways looks from your core audience, similar to how if you continue on serving up the same sounds, the routine could go stale.

Helping to shake things upward, Scott Churilla has resurfaced on drums, and instead of overthinking information technology, The Rev seems to just lay back with the ring's most notorious lineup, and tap into the magic that has made The Reverend Horton Rut 1 of the near entertaining roots bands in the last quarter century.

The new album Rev makes employ of the dual meaning of the 'rev' term, and is a pedal downwardly, screaming-tires good time from the start to the finish line. The album begins with two songs that seamlessly segway into each other—"Victory Lap" and "Smell of Gasoline"—in that mode The Rev has been known for over the years, harkening back to that badass moment at the beginning of 1994's Liquor In The Front that began with "Large Sky" and "Baddest of the Bad" back to back.

Though the ring is well in their groove here, long-time Horton Rut listeners volition recognize they go to some of the aforementioned wells they've been to in the past a few times in the album. Songs similar "Zombie Dumb," "Schizoid," and the first single "Let Me Teach You lot How To Consume" seem to take older song concepts and just shake around the riffs and lyrics a flake. Rev besides doesn't afford you whatsoever of those cool, gear-shifting stripped-down countrified songs like "Bales of Cocaine" or "The Bedroom Again" that gave some of the classic Horton Oestrus albums that extra flavor.

Merely what Rev does have is an infectiousness and vitality that was missing in some of their more recent offerings. Though "Never Gonna Cease It" doesn't give much lyrically, this is Horton Heat finding the infectious pocket of his audio. "My Hat" is a is a fun, quick piddling tune, and "Longest Gonest Homo" shows off the capable lyricist we know Jim Heath can be.

Rev is probably non the identify to showtime for someone who's never heard The Reverend Horton Heat before; I would fall back on Fume 'Em If You Got 'Em or Spend A Night In The Box. But it is a solid, entertaining offering all the same, an improvement from some of the other recent projects, and will serve the dedicated Reverend Horton Heat fan quite well.

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