Spend a Night in the Box
The Reverend Horton Heat
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Release Date: 12/05/2023
The Reverend Horton Heat ain't just a person, or a bandit'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, marrying punk with rockabilly to create the psychobilly genre. And, on their 2000 album Spend the Night in the Boxwhich, to burnish the "psycho" credentials, was produced by fellow Texan Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers fameThe Reverend Horton Heat struck gold (hence our 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/swing 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 (ahem) heated. Vinyl debut boasting inner sleeve with lyrics!
1: Spend a Night in the Box
2: Big D Boogie Woogie
3: Sleeper Coach Driver
4: The Girl in Blue
5: Sue Jack Daniels
6: Hand It to Me
7: I'll Make Love
8: It Hurts Your Daddy Bad
9: The Bedroom Again
10: King
11: Whole Lotta Baby
12: The Millionaire
13: Unlucky in Love
14: The Party in Your Head