There’s a rumbling in Hollywood, and it’s not the subterranean churnings of an earthquake in the works. It’s The Cheatin’ Kind. And they want to rattle your trashy soul with gritty lyrics, meaty pickin’, and a lusty wail. If one of them should “borrow†your spouse along the way, well…take it as a compliment.
The band was conceived in the summer of 2003, when Babs MacDonald realized that her life was not quite fully saturated in the areas of live rocking and late night buffoonery. Babsy’s singing resume stretched way back to her Southern roots, and included garage rock bands the Neanderdolls and Poontwang. She wrote a fistful of songs, hiked up her skirt, and went prowling for the best band in town.
Bass player BeerTruck was the first recruit, newly arrived from The Big Apple, and reknowned member of the city’s punk legends The Bullys. Then fire-fingered Tele wonder Paul Morris surfaced as if by magic. Veteran guitarist for El Vez and Trailer Park Casanovas, he’s also the guy behind the Expedia.com ads. Chel T. Rich, of Tar Brush fame, completes the band on drums.
The tremors are spreading as The Cheatin’ Kind hits the road to inject some much-needed “rock†into the increasingly navel-gazing field of “roots rock.†Of course, if you see that field buckling, you might be experiencing an earthquake after all…in which case, grab a beer and find someone to make out with!
