Goddamn This Holy Shit Is Fun
This record is a lot of fun and
may be the genesis of a newish genre: punk’n’drunk waltz-bluegrass, encapsulated
in fifth track One For The Road, though it could be argued that with a song like
this The Holy Modal Rounders and The Fugs have been in similar territory many
years before. The difference is the punk-country of other music on this record,
like opener Goddamn Holy Roll. Then
there’s the ol’ time Country revival of the 1953 Davis Sisters’ song I Forgot More, and another authentic cover
A Whole Lot More [originally A Whole Lot More of Jesus (and a Lot Less
Rock and Roll) by Wayne Raney in 1960]. One other cover to mention is Mac
Davis’ Hard To Be Humble, sung proud
and loud by Lawyer Dave who is one half of the duo that is this band – the other
being Holly Golightly - and this gets an update where at its start Dave and
Holly ‘share’ Facebook hate messages about one another: a rather obtuse contemporising.
The album ends on a punkstomp This Shit
Is Gold which isn’t quite an intended summation of the whole, but in many ways
the overall playfulness is its core value, whatever worth you place on that. I’m
sure it was as much fun to record as it would be to hear live.
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