Nashville Pussy

Nashville Pussy hail from Atlanta, not Nashville, and the name is a Ted Nugent joke: they swiped it from Nugent's introduction to "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" on Double Live Gonzo!, after starting out as Hell's Half-Acre. Blaine Cartwright had been a guitarist in the Kentucky cowpunk outfit Nine Pound Hammer, and here he took over the microphone too, snarling over riffs that sound like a muscle car with no muffler. His wife, Ruyter Suys, is the other half of the band's core, and together they have kept the thing roaring through every lineup change.

The songs stick to the essentials, sex, drugs, drinking, fighting and rock and roll, served up as heavy metal soaked in Southern boogie and punk spit. The rhythm section has been a revolving door. Original drummer Adam Neal left to start the Hookers, and Jeremy Thompson, once of Texas band Phantom Creeps, became the fixture behind the kit. Original bassist Corey Parks quit shortly after High as Hell, and Tracy Almazan was drafted mid-tour. Say Something Nasty, on SPV, was cut with Almazan on bass, yet it's Katielyn Campbell whose image graces the album, since she'd taken over by then; Karen Cuda had the job by the time of Get Some. The title track of Say Something Nasty is exactly what it promises: loud, rude and gloriously unrepentant.

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