Personnel: Rodney Carrington (vocals, guitar); Michael Clark (acoustic, electric & pedal steel guitars, banjo, mandolin, 6-string bass); Sam Bush (fiddle); Steve Allee (piano); Bob Hogan (keyboards, background vocals); Randy Melson (bass); Dane Clark (drums, percussion); Will T. Wright (background vocals); Doug Beng,e Frank Smith, Pepper Armstrong.
Producers: Rodney Carrington, Tom Griswold, Steve Allee, Michael Clark.
Engineers: Steve Lowery, Kevin Moore, Alan Johnson.
Recorded at TRC Studios, Indianapolis, Indiana, live at In Cahoots, Wichita, Kansas and Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Country comedian Rodney Carrington is essentially a good ol' boy version of Pauly Shore, or to make a closer to down-home comparison, a sort of X-rated Minnie Pearl. Which is to say that he may be country, but one rather doubts that he'll ever play the Grand Ole Opry.
Potty-mouthed or not, he's undeniably funny, and he gets off some great comic riffs here, including one about the strange connection between Barney The Purple Dinosaur and sexual arousal in married couples. He also sings (quite well, in a clench-jawed, George Jones-ish way) some filthy self-penned C&W songs, two of which are offered in both live and studio versions. The best of the bunch may be "Pickup Truck," an ode to a vehicle he cherishes because "it won't sleep with my best friend."
