Planet Rockabilly Reviews

"Headin' On" - June 24, 2005

Having toured extensively throughout the United States and received a nomination for My Texas 2003 album of the year for their first release "Short & Sweet", Lil' Bit and the Customatics are back with a new set of tunes! The band retained Jen 'Lil' Bit' Adams o­n vocals and Tomcat Miller o­n bass, but added a hot new guitar picker Brian Duarte o­n lead guitar and Dave Grisci o­n rhythm guitar. Despite the line-up change, the Customatics have retained their style of stompin' Texas hillbilly bop, country jazz and rockabilly.

"Headin' o­n" really shines with original songs like "Paintin the Town" (nice jazzy country boogie with some fine guitar pickin), "My Biggest Mistake" (dark western ballad) and "Now That You've Gone Away" (peppy country jazz). They also knock out a couple of good covers with "Step It Up & Go" and "Just Because". Nice all around sound o­n the CD and some great guitar playing throughout.

"Short & Sweet" - July 15, 2004

Lil Bit and the Customatics are a four piece drummer-less quartet from Texas that play honky-tonk, country, hillbilly and even some rockabilly. The band features Jen Adams o­n vocals, Brent Warren o­n lead guitar, Steve James o­n acoustic guitar and Tom Miller (formerly of the Bop Kings) o­n upright bass. Brent is not o­nly a fantastic picker, but has written most of the material o­n the groups debut record "Short & Sweet". Jen belts out some pretty strong vocals and the rhythm section is as solid as a tank.

The CD contains some pretty peppy material that is sure to get your toes a tappin' and your big feet a slappin'. My favorite tracks o­n the CD are the originals "Back o­n Track" which has some neat dobro guitar and "IH 35 Down". o­nly 2 songs o­n this 11 tracker are covers and the sound quality is quite good.