The music remains a frenzied blur of sounds and styles, rocketing from bluegrass to punk rock and ricocheting around the most unexpected corners in roots music, just because the boys in the band think it's funny to play it that way.
And, while the audience is still trying to recover from the band's lunatic bantering, and careening from Rockabilly to Sea Chanties, the boys will slip in smattering of hook-laden, original songs with a breezy ease that belies their maturity and professionalism.
Then, what the hell, maybe a shaggy dog story and a couple of show tunes. You never know. Expect the unexpected.
From campfires to concert halls, Psych-A-Billy has turned up just about everywhere in the last ten years, including Gene Shay's Folk Music Show on Philadelphia's WXPN, "Philadelphia's Home of Rock'n'Roll," WMMR, the World Premiere of a documentary film about a Kentucky town that elected a dog as Mayor, and as the band at the world's only known Puerto Rican/Swedish Wedding.
For reasons nobody understands, though, their CDs got their most enthusiastic airplay in Australia --not enthusiastic enough to actually send the band to Australia, but most Philadelphians are still hoping that it might still happen some day.
Their flat out refusal to play music that will fit neatly into any known category, or to even behave themselves like reasonable people, challenges the sensibilities of the staid and conventional. And, Psych-A-Billy just doesn't care, because, well, that wouldn't be as much fun.
And, always, no matter what, come hell, high-water, cops or kangaroos, Psych-A-Billy has way too much fun