What a way to start! What a sentiment. The cutting line of repartee we have all longed to say to people from time to time, “Shut Up And Drink Your Beer.” We’ve all got problems; we all have to contend with life’s slings and arrows from time to time, but why whine about it? Why bring someone else down with you? Why not drown those sorrows, even if it sometimes seems like they have learned to swim?
This opening salvo from Miss Georgia Peach sets the tone perfectly, not just regarding the no-messing attitude and the blend of honesty and humor that runs through the album but also speaking volumes about the music blends at work.
Class Out The Ass is built on glorious threads of rock and roots, honky-tonk traditions, and country grooves, all freshened up with healthy doses of pop and punk, and the result is an excellent series of blasts from the past being reimagined for a modern audience. Take “Dusty,” a song that feels like a long-lost 50’s girl group hit but one whose sophisticated textures feel nothing if not contemporary.
“I Don’t Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)” gives itself over to brilliant Grand Ole Opry vibes, “Bang Bang” is an abrasively awesome country-punkabilly anthem, embued with the sort of brilliant hooky repetition that means that you will be singing along by the time the chorus comes around for the second time. Perhaps the scope of the sonic spectrum found here becomes apparent when you play “Somewhere Down the Line,” an infectious and energetic rock groover, and then the heart-aching ballad “Some of Shelly’s Blues” back-to-back.
Class Out The Ass is a glorious nod to the past without playing the nostalgic or plagiaristic card; it is a sound enabled by standing on the shoulders of giants; sure, what music isn’t, but certainly more about carrying a torch into the modern age than being stuck in an earlier era. It’s like the fifties Bakersfield sound if it was happening today and being made by people who still revel in the sound of their old punk records. My kinda people.
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