That Nashville SoundBITES- JB & the Moonshine Band- Aint Goin’ Back To Jail

That Nashville Sound receives many different CD releases throughout the year from indie, bluegrass and artists just off the mainstream radar- or smaller projects like EPs- that we’re doing short mini CD reviews on. We call them That Nashville SoundBITES- it’s a feature that will allow us to give some props to some albums and artists that deserve a spotlight on their work.

Release Date: July 2010

Music Label: Average Joe Entertainment

The Skinny: This four-piece band shows a level of promise with creative songwriting and a sense of humor on their first release. With themes like jail time, drinking, drugs, boobies and weenies, it’s evident that it’s youthful debauchery that inspires these guys. If that’s your thing, it will resonate. Otherwise, it’s going to miss from a generational perspective. The band is a cross between dorm room and bar room. Can “college country” be a new subgenre? It does have a couple of stand-out tracks including “Perfect Girl,” a song that takes male chauvinism so far out into left field that it reveals the irony and paradox with such an opinion as well as the touching “Chasin’ Rainbows” that philosophizes the trade-offs of following your music dreams.

Sounds Like: Crossin Dixon or Whiskey Falls

Standout Tracks: "Perfect Girl," "I’m Broke," “Chasin’ Rainbows”

The Verdict: Two and a half stars out of five