Jackyl When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide Chainsaw-toting, moonshine drinkin’ good ole boys Jackyl are about as predictable as they come. It’s biker rock at its finest. They, along with bands like American Dog, Nashville Pussy and numerous others will always have a home at places like Sturgis or anywhere there’s a posse of bikers, grease, leather, bar-b-que and Pabst. So it’s no surprise that “When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide,” it produces the same effect as most of their other records. Also from the AC/DC-mold of things, Jackyl doesn’t reinvent the wheel too much. Why should they? They only need to release a record really to get back out on the road and include a few new gems from whatever is most recent in the already polished set. On this recording, “Loads of Fun,” “My Moonshine Kicks Your Cocaine’s Ass” and “Deeper in Darkness” satisfy that quota. In addition to their whiskey-fueled, Jonsered carnage, the band actually called people that pre-ordered the album, yours truly included even though I missed it thanks to a night of some of my own alcoholic indiscretions. Good to see a band from the early 90s that were one of the last of the good-time bands to thrive still gives a s*it enough to thank you for spending your money on their tunes. What’s inspiring about Jackyl, is frontman Jesse James Dupree’s and his Dixie Inc. project actually charted a few years ago, and no one is selling their souls on reality television or doing seedy bullshit to still make a living doing rock ‘n’ roll when many wrote them off for dead years ago. Solid rock album here, and a side note, the cover of Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” shows that Dupree’s voice is actually more like hers than AC/DC’s Brian Johnson’s (!). 7/10 – B.J. Lisko