The Six Shot Revival – Bible Belt Boozehounds (EP)
Release Date: April, 2013
Atlanta’s very own Six Shot Revival have returned with their follow up to 2011’s “Greatest Hits Vol. I” with an EP called “Bible Belt Boozehounds.” Let me tell you folks, Six Shot Revival is definitely back and they haven’t wiped their shoes before entry. Six Shot Revival is proving once again that very few can do this nasty, stanky, southern heavy rock and roll like they can. Six Shot Revival does this while sounding as authentic and sincere as anyone I’ve heard. My only complaint is that while this is a really fun listen, I’m worried that The Six Shot Revival may end up becoming a one trick pony.
Opening song “Blues Ain’t Blues” just hit me in the face like a hot, humid Georgia summer’s day as the guitar playing of Jon Brown creates air so thick you could cut it with a knife. Vocalist Marc Manley Phillips has really come into his own voice on this album. I feel like on the last album Greatest Hits Vol. 1 that Phillips tried hard to emulate his heroes while on Bible Belt Boozehounds he channels his inner Steven Tyler and Axl Rose influences and molds them into the voice of Marc M. Phillips. It’s really great to hear a singer not afraid to be gritty and not perfect. When I mean not perfect, I mean that in a good way. The rawness of his vocals on songs like “Hard Up” and “Under the Gun” brings an attitude and while he may not be a pitch perfect, auto-tuned vocalist, the realness of his abilities add to the music and truly make it an authentic sound.
The song “Money in my Pocket” was the only song that really kind of had me scratching my head. I felt like this track in general was not anywhere near the caliber of material from this EP or the previous album. It just sounded very juvenile and kind of silly. “Stone Cold Fox” ended up being my 2nd favorite song on the EP just behind “Blues Ain’t Blues.” This is really a hell of a song and it encapsulated a dark, groovy, southern sleaze kind of vibe that beckoned back to Rocks era Aerosmith.
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In all honesty, I would love to see these guys break away from the redneck booze drinking hell raising thing. I feel like it kind of pigeon holes them into this demographic that doesn’t give them much room to expand. Six Shot Revival definitely has the chops and the ability to really do something special and something substantial. I can only hope that maybe at some point they will expand their horizons and go outside of the box that they now reside in. All in all, Bible Belt Boozehounds is a really strong follow up and a really fun listen with the exception of “Money in my Pocket.” With Bible Belt Boozehounds, I would say that Six Shot Revival had a base hit as opposed to knocking it out of the park.
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