"Get the CD, enjoy it as much as I have, and help stick it to The Man. (4 STARS)" --- Freight Train Boogie
"Denk daarbij aan the Drive-By Truckers, the Bottle Rockets en Slobberbone." --- ALT COUNTRY NL
"Conjures up an alt country Elvis Costel [+]"Get the CD, enjoy it as much as I have, and help stick it to The Man. (4 STARS)" --- Freight Train Boogie
"Denk daarbij aan the Drive-By Truckers, the Bottle Rockets en Slobberbone." --- ALT COUNTRY NL
"Conjures up an alt country Elvis Costello" --- Miles of Music
FREIGHT TRAiN BOOGIE:
"Take four parts Louisville twang, one part big-time producer, mix liberally with serious musical chops, fun songwriting, and serve hot. What you get is Hells 1/2 Acre's new CD, Under A Whiskey Moon. Ranging from the Beatles influenced "Sun Comes Up" to the irony of "Kindness of Strangers" to straight-up existential twang on songs like "Big Black Car," Hells 1/2 Acre shows a breadth and depth in their songwriting that really shines. They clearly have a single in "Silver Dollar" and maybe a few more past that. The production work of Mike Wanchic, who has played with and produced for Mellencamp, is really wonderful. Wanchic could be the fairy godmother who turns Hells 1/2 Acre from a fun, talented regional touring act into a group we get to hear on our car stereos. If for nothing else, this CD is wonderful for the ironic and perky death-row song "Kindness of Strangers" about a bad man who can't see that he's bad, and "One Lonely Night" where the protagonist tries to win his love by comparing her to Eva Braun and a hooker in an alleyway. If country radio had any cojones or sense of humor, they'd play this CD. Get the CD, enjoy it as much as I have, and help stick it to The Man. (4 STARS) " -- CLINT WEATHERS
ALL MUSIC GUIDE:
On the follow-up to their 2003 debut Blacktops & Blackouts, Louisville's Hell's Half Acre have undergone a kind of musical transformation. While their first outing was a boisterous, drunkabilly, cowpunk vision of excess, Under a Whiskey Moon offers a deeper, wider approach to American music. The songs by frontman John Woosley and bassist Rankin Mapother here reflect a wider, varied palette. One can hear the Faces, and the early-1970's era Rolling Stones in their countrified roots rock. That's not to say that Hell's Half Acre have given up writing about getting drunk, getting high, or raising hell; they just do it differently. With John Mellencamp's guitarist Mike Wanchic at the production helm - and the album being cut in Bloomington, IN
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