Dubbing himself the last of the full-grown men, Webb Wilder sports the sort of sequin-spangled Nudie suit Cowboy Copas considered classy, and he oozes attitude. He also flat-out rocks. Suggesting a loopier Jason and the Scorchers, the NashVegans manhandle country rave-ups by Waylon and Jerry Lee, tear through trash classics by the Music Machine and the Flamin' Groovies and get real gone with Brit shoulda-been hits by Dave Edmunds, the Small Faces and Mott the Hoople. Subjecting even the James Bond theme "Goldfinger" and the 10-gallon weeper "Streets of Laredo (The Cowboy's Lament)" to big-beat treatment, they serve up potent Southern comfort. (RS 705)

PAUL EVANS