This 4 track charity EP was released to support mental health care groups in the New Orleans area. Each band covers a track by the other and they both run through one of their favorite New Orleans artist?s tracks. Texas? Boxcar Satan kicks things off with a snarly, growling, ripsnorting take on Charley Patton?s prophetic ?High Water Everywhere,? with Sanford Allen?s sandpaper vocals sliding in somewhere between Tom Waits and Dr. Hook over a syncopated, garagey backing that would do Captain Beefheart proud.

New Orleans native, Stoo Odom (formerly with one of our favorite San Francisco space rock bands, SubArachnoid Space) now leads The Graves Brothers Deluxe and they destroy Boxcar Satan?s ?Shoot Down The Sun? with reckless abandon. It?s mean, lowdown, Gothic punk - not exactly tuneful, but a lot of fun in a drunken, frat party sort of way. Their rousing version of Huey ?Piano? Smith?s ?Don?t You Just Know It? is even better, particularly with nearly a dozen backing vocalists whooping it up through the ?gooba gooba gooba gooba? chorus ? think Buster Poindexter meets Mojo Nixon for a propane-fueled weekend of drunken debauchery. The Boxcars wrap things up with their interpretation of The Brothers? ?Legs Rub Together? and then everybody?s off to reconvene in the French Quarter for a few dozen hurricanes. Not exactly the most melodic piece of insanity I?ve heard all year, but it is for a good cause. 6/10 -- Jeff Penczak (3 April, 2007)