Dallas Moore
One Night in Kentucky

Michael Buffalo Smith
Gritz Magazine - Summer '05

There may be harder working musicians in the USA, but I have yet to meet them. Dallas Moore and his band The Snatch Wranglers, seem to always be operating at 125% full-tilt-boogie-on the front burner.  The band has created a strong following in their home state of Ohio, which has in turn bled out into the entire country and around the globe. It's that damned energy. Dallas just loves entertaining and it makes us all get into the groove. It doesn't hurt that he carries a posse of ultra-talented players with him either.

One Night in Kentucky is good. I think the filming could have been better, but hey, don't let that stop you from ordering! See, the performances are so strong that even without million-dollar videography, it still cuts like a knife.

Recorded live at The Expo in Louisville, it's a rough and rowdy redneck rock and roll party captured on film. From the fun opener "Great Big Woman" on through excellent tunes like "Down in Dixie," "Son of Carolina" and "Mama Was a God Fearing Woman," Dallas and the band stand and deliver time and time again. There are some awesome cover tunes as well, including Moore's take on Billy Joe Shaver's "Hottest Thing in Town," Hank Williams' Jr's "A Country Boy Can Survive," and Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road."

The concert is augmented with interview footage of Dallas and there's on off-stage acoustic bonus track "As Good as it Gets."

One Night in Kentucky is like a hot chick ridin' a Harley and pullin' a bass boat full of Skynyrd CD's-it don't get no better than that!