Hillbilly’s logic states “it’s best to buy more liquor than you need, it’s better to be drunk than sober!” Atomicat Records’ logic decrees “you can never have enough music in your collection!” With Atomicat Records (ACCD138) Hillbilly Booze Party 01 Pink Elephants, you can raise a glass as the first song is played; by song twenty-eight, you will need to raise your drunken body off the floor! The songs are not for those uptown and sophisticated people, these are songs for; dancing, having a hillbilly wing ding do and getting s**t faced! There is one title from 1940 then the remaining drunk-a-hillbilly songs are from 1948 to 1960.
The Hillbilly and Western Swing music is up-tempo and countrified, and the album’s party mood kicks off with information from Johnny Tyler and The Riders Of The Rio Grande who in western tradition sing “It Ain't Far To The Bar”, King Sterling and His Blue Grass Melody Boys sing about Too Many Taverns, and the tone and alcohol-soaked flavour of all the vocal songs on the album. There are strong warnings against indulging in alcohol abuse; Eddie Marshall and His Trail Dusters’ advice are, Buddy Stay Off Of That Wine. Lattie Moore knows every time he buys a bottle of brew he is Driving Nails into his coffin, Cecil Bowman’s life is on the road to ruin from the Curse Of Wine, Hank Penny through his first version of Bloodshot Eyes informs his gin-soaked lady about the effect the demon drink is having on her eyes, and it is too late for the Georgia Crackers whom the next day are suffering from the Hangover Boogie.
Husband and wife Bob and Wanda Wolfe party at home and drink their Home Made Wine, while, Montie Jones and The Revin Robbin's have gone into business making Moonshine, and Eddie Noack tells the tale of Firewater Luke. Songs about country living are heard from; Louie Innis and His String Dusters, Honky-Tonk Man, Joe Maphis and Rose Lee , Honky Tonk Down Town, Ernie Lee and His Southerners, You Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time, and Tommy Scott Gonna Paint The Town Red. You’re your “beer glasses” you will encounter; the Honky Tonk Queen, Larry Thornton, and upon returning home Sad Singin', Slow Ridin', Polly Possum and Joe Wolverton with The Dog Patch Boys.
Some hicks ain’t got two brain cells and it’s too late they are intoxicated; Wally Willette and His Globe Rockers are seeing Pink Elephants, Paul Howard and His Cotton Pickers have had enough of problems during I'm Drinking All My Troubles Away, while Jay Haggard has the Bartender Blues, and Luke Wills Rhythm Busters inform the moaning patron, Shut Up And Drink Your Beer and Billy Jack Wills and His Western Swing Band ? have Four Beers And Forty Tears. All fun must come to an end; Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers were on a mission to, Drink The Barrel Dry, Onie Wheeler calls “Closing Time”, and Mitchell Torok gives good advice “Drink Up And Go Home.”
The sleeve provides full artist and supporting band information and where known session details are indicated within the sleeve notes. You must purchase your own alcohol, and Atomicat Records’ public health warning is “listening to this album will increase the chances of getting drunk, dancing and having fun!”
The album is compiled and annotated by well-known Dee Jay Mark Armstrong, who has been Dee Jaying since his early teen years. Design artist Alf Button’s Revenge brought the concept visually to life, and the recordings are remastered at The Studio That Time Forgot, El Paso Texas. By maintaining our integrity, and principles we are confident our competitively priced albums are perfect from beginning to end.
Atomicat doesn't make an album of average music our philosophy is to compile songs of quality, with every album, it's a "killer and no filler" ideology! You are listening to music from the past with a remastered sound that will shake the speakers." Atomicat Records "are often imitated, never duplicated."
Should we ever meet “I cannot say no to an offer to drink, it’s better to have drunk a little, than not have drunk at all!
All that remains is to say, “Crank up the volume and dig these musical gems.
Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany
01 Johnny Tyler and The Riders Of The Rio Grande It Ain't Far To The Bar (Merrill) RCA Victor 1949
02 Eddie Marshall and His Trail Dusters Buddy Stay Off Of That Wine (Culver, Rogers, Hall) RCA Victor 1950
03 Wally Willette and His Globe Rockers Pink Elephants (Willette) Flag 1959
04 King Sterling and His Blue Grass Melody Boys Too Many Taverns (Sterling) Starday 1956
05 Louie Innis and His String Dusters Honky-Tonk Man (Innis) Mercury 1951
06 Joe Maphis and Rose Lee Honky Tonk Down Town (Maphis) Columbia 1955
07 Montie Jones and The Revin Robbin's Moonshine (Jones, Jones) Jemm 1960
08 Lattie Moore Driving Nails (Irby) King 1960
09 Cecil Bowman Curse Of Wine (Edwards, Bowman) D 1959
10 Guy Willis and His Oklahoma Wranglers Shine, Shave, Shower (Frizzell, Beck) RCA Victor 1951
11 Red Perkins A Long-Necked Bottle (And A Big Water Glass) (Perkins) King 1950
12 Smiley Maxedon Give Me A Red Hot Mama And An Ice Cold Beer (Nicholas) Columbia 1953
13 The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers Honky Tonk Blues (C & C Cline) RCA Victor 1953
14 Paul Howard and His Cotton Pickers I'm Drinking All My Troubles Away (Howard) Columbia 1948
15 Hank Penny Bloodshot Eyes (Penny, Hall) King 1949
16 Ernie Lee and His Southerners You Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time (Frizzell) Mercury 1950
17 Georgia Crackers Hangover Boogie (Newman) Sage EP 1959
18 Bob and Wanda Wolfe Home Made Wine (B & W Wolfe, Clements) King 1955
19 Tommy Scott Gonna Paint The Town Red (Scott) King 1952
20 Larry Thornton Honky Tonk Queen (Thornton) Sage 1960
21 Jay Haggard Bartender Blues (Haggard) Daja 1958
22 Polly Possum and Joe Wolverton with The Dog Patch Boys Sad Singin', Slow Ridin' (Fox, Ruby) Columbia 1952
23 Luke Wills Rhythm Busters Shut Up And Drink Your Beer (Newman) RCA Victor 1947
24 Billy Jack Wills and His Western Swing Band ? Four Beers And Forty Tears (Tebbetts) MGM 1955
25 Eddie Noack Firewater Luke (Noack) D 1960
26 Bill Boyd and His Cowboy Ramblers Drink The Barrel Dry (Montgomery) Bluebird 1940
27 Onie Wheeler Closing Time (Wheeler, Lee) Okeh 1954
28 Mitchell Torok Drink Up And Go Home (Hart, Bond, Mathis) Decca 1956
