Reverend Horton Heat • Spend A Night In The Box LP (gold vinyl)
The Reverend Horton Heat ain’t just a person, or a band - it’s a state of mind. Drawing on such crazed rockabilly ancestors as Charlie Feathers, Hasil Adkins, and The Killer himself, James (Reverend Horton) Heath and his long-time bassist Jimbo Wallace have, over the course of the last 30-plus years, helped bring rockabilly kicking and screaming into the modern age, On their 2000 album Spend the Night in the Box - which, to burnish the “psycho” credentials, was produced by fellow Texan Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers fame - The Reverend Horton Heat struck gold (hence this gold vinyl edition!), going to #2 on the CMJ charts on the strength of such numbers as Sue Jack Daniels, The Girl in Blue and other misbegotten tales of babes and booze. This is actually a bit of a return to a classic rockabilly sound, powered by the Rev’s 1954 Gibson ES-175 and the rhythm section of Wallace and drummer Scott Churilla, but it’s no less heated. First time on vinyl - including inner sleeve with lyrics!
