#4 - Bourbon Crow - Highway to Hangovers

Bourbon Crow - Highway to Hangovers (Horror High)
Johnny Cash may be gone but his rabble-rousing spirit lives on in singers like Buck Bourbon (aka Wednesday13, formerly of the goth-glam metal band The Murderdolls). Bourbon teamed up with another longtime outlaw country fan, Jesse Crow (aka Raven "Kid Kid" Belchere), to record 13 tracks of straight up alcohol-fueled country songs that'll make both their grandpappies proud. In typical Wednesday13 fashion, the singer likes to play on words and the lyrics to his songs with Bourbon Crow typically involve drinking ("Alcohol Express", "Drink 'Till You Ain't Ugly", "Alcohol is Awesome") and doing bad things to bad people - usually women that have wronged him ("A Dead Body", "Lord Put My Girl", "I Wish I Cared"). It's great that Bourbon is able to go from his day gig as a solo artist (Wednesday13) that sounds like a mix of Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson to an outlaw country rebel that fits in right alongside Johnny Cash, David Alan Coe, Hank Williams Sr., and Merle Haggard. This is a damn fine drinking album and a great tribute to some honest and weathered country singers that don't get their due.