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Reverend Horton Heat
Larry and his Flask & Deke Dickerson
Loaded .38s, space heaters, and big skies. Welcome to the lethal
litteredm landscape of Jim Heath’s imagination. True to his high
evangelical calling, Jim is a Revelator, both revealing &
reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of American music. He’s a
time-travelling space-cowboy on a endless interstellar musical tour, and
we are all the richer & “psychobillier” for getting to tag along.
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Seeing Reverend Horton Heat live is a transformative experience.
Flames come off the guitars. Heat singes your skin. There’s nothing
like the primal tribal rock & roll transfiguration of a Reverend
Horton Heat show. Jim becomes a slicked-back 1950’s rock & roll
shaman channeling Screamin’ Jay Hawkins through Buddy Holly, while Jimbo
incinerates the Stand-Up Bass like
Jerry Lee Lewis on steroids. And then there are the “Heatettes”.
Those foxy rockabilly chicks dressed in poodle-skirts and cowboy boots
dreamily dancing the night away. It’s like being magically transported
into a Teen Exploitation picture from the 1950’s that’s currently taking
place in the future.
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Listening to the Reverend Horton Heat is tantamount to injecting pure
musical nitrous into the hot-rod engine of your heart. The Reverend’s
commandants are simple. Rock hard, drive fast, and live true. And no
band on this, or any other, planet rocks harder, drives faster, or lives
truer than the Reverend Horton Heat. These “itinerant preachers”
actually practice what they preach. They live their lives by the Gospel
of Rock & Roll.
From the High-Octane Spaghetti-Western Wall of Sound in “Big Sky” –
to the dark driving frenetic paranoia of “400 Bucks” – to the
brain-melting Western Psychedelic Garage purity of “Psychobilly
Freakout” – The Rev’s music is the perfect soundtrack to the Drive-In
Movie of your life.
Jim Heath & Jimbo Wallace have chewed up more road than the
Google Maps drivers. For twenty-five Psychobilly years, they have blazed
an indelible, unforgettable, and meteoric trail across the American
musical landscape with their unique blend of musical virtuosity,
legendary showmanship, and mythic imagery.
Okay it’s time for me to put this loaded gun down, jump in my Five-Oh
Ford, and nurture my pig on the outskirts of Houston. I’ll be bringing
my love whip. See y’all later.
C. M. Talkington
Writer/Director
Love & A .45
November 15, 2013 8:00 pm
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Doors:November 15, 2013 7:00 pmSpecial Guest: Larry and his Flask & Deke Dickerson
$30 Age: 12 &over (under 16 must be with adult)
