Nashville Pussy Hot Time in City

w/Valiant Thorr and American Party Machine

@ Will’s Pub, Orlando, FL, August 19, 2015

Gritty, raw and and as jagged as a shattered beer bottle used to get the upper hand in a bar fight, Nashville Pussy is all these things and more. Unconcerned with life’s refinements, their live show is a sucker punch connecting straight between the eyes.

This Atlanta band isn’t here to break new musical ground. They deliver angry Southern rock for punks and speedfreaks who grew up listening to Skynyrd but didn’t have the patience to suffer through “Freebird” in its enteirity.

Thankfully. Keeping the stage banter to a minimum, the songs came one after another, hard, strong and delivered with subtlety of a convicted killer having his last conjugal visit. There’s an precise urgency which courses deep in this bands psyche and they are going to prove themselves each and every time they play. “High as Hell,” Hate and Whiskey,” and my own new personal favorite, “The South’s too Fat to Rise Again” were plowed through, only stopping long enough to drink Jack straight from the bottle.

This band is often described as an American version of Motorhead and it’s a fair comparrison. Lemmy only wishes his band mates looked as good in skirts. Motorhead never put out crap, and neither have Nashville Pussy. The life lesson here, keep your rock simple, straight forward and ornery as hell.

From Chapel Hill, North Carolina came Valiant Thorr in support. They delivered a strong opening set of boogie and space rock filtered through Red Bull. VT have a strong stage presence and huge sound. Their set made me want to see them in full flight as headliners.

And then there were the antics of American Party Machine. From Orlando came the one and only Worl Wresting stylings of AMP. Covered in red, white and blue to the gills, these guys meant business. Overblown and outsized, this was equal parts performance art and Stoner rock. And I dug it. The more upbeat the better. In a world where everyone feels they have something to say, AMP were refreshing for an unpretentious, easily surmised belief system. Primarily America and weed. Nuff Said