I once took a road trip from Burke County to Texas under the guise of seeing Willie play Austin. In truth, the trip was as much about the journey as it was the destination: shrimp and beer overlooking Mobile Bay; coffee to refuel a long New Orleans night; Pat Greene playing Luckenbach. The Hushpuppies sing of such travels, everyday lives set to the backdrop of a six-string guitar. Its dirt roads and blacktops; canned beer and Tennessee whiskey; a harvest moon on slow-moving black water. It’s honest work for honest pay; that thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning; and, of course, the sweet drawl of your name as it passes from the lips of a Southern belle, that may not always act the way her momma raised her. They are storytellers, road-weary troubadours, in the likes of REK or Waylon himself. You don’t have to live below the Mason-Dixon to appreciate their sound, but you’ll be reminded of why you do every time you hear ‘em play.

Ben Roberts (Sep, 2009)

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