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...Dash Rip Rock...
...Dash Rip Rock...
WHEN MUSICIANS ARE HAVING FUN, their enjoyment is so infectious that it immediately spreads to the listener. There is no doubt that Dash Rip Rock, a new power trio from Louisiana, is having fun on their eponymous debut album, and it is hard not to want to get up and party just listening to it. Dash Rip Rock is not music to do your homework...
Part of the fun comes from the band's off-the-wall character. Dash Rip Rock is named for Ellie Mae's suitor on "The Beverly Hillbillies." Its song-writers, guitarist Bill Davis and drummer Fred LeBlanc, compose love ballads, songs of graveyards and whiskey, and ominous-sounding instrumentals with equal facility. Their music mixes seemingly incompatible styles: Louisiana country music, rockabilly, and thrash-punk...
...that strange; hand-clappin' and foot-stompin' differ from slam dancing only by degree. Nor is the synthesis new or unique; such bands as the Long Ryders and Los Lobos play music that is a hybrid of these same styles--but not with the ferocity of Dash Rip Rock. It is as if Hank Williams, Sr. and Duane Eddy were the front men for Black Flag...