In the wake of The Cramps' cover of his ape-shit "She Said", the one-man rockabilly wreckin' machine, HASIL ADKINS finally enjoyed a modicum of underground celebrity beginning in the mid-80s. His sudden emergence onto the scene encouraged Billy Miller and Miriam Linna (The Cramps first drummer) to launch their own Norton Records and dole out his back catalog of whacko rockabilly hoot. The label reissued a singlewide trailer load of his crude home recordings from the fifties and sixties on the 1986 "Out To Hunch" LP. Due to the abundance of high praise for the album, Billy and Miriam quickly hauled Hasil into a proper studio to record the follow-up, "The Wild Man". For the first time in close to thirty years Hasil wasn't hogtied by the limited capabilities of the cheap equipment he used in the family chicken shack back in the hills of West Virginia.
"Big Red Satellite" was plucked from the sessions for a single and was widely lauded as his best release to date. Hasil creates quite the commotion as he jibbers and jabbers about his red and white polka-dotted automobile on the unruly top deck. On the non-LP flipside, "Ellen Marie", he manages to somehow coax his inner country crooner out from an empty bottle and belt out an infrequent ballad.
BORN OUTTA TIME
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