Music Monday: NASHVILLE GIRL - canned hamm live!

Rated R; 90min; Director:Gus Trikonis

Location: Alamo Downtown

This show is a part of the Music Monday Signature Series, Click to See More

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RARE 35mm screening of the country exploitation classic!

This is the LAST MUSIC MONDAY ever at the original Alamo! Be there!! PLUS I'll be giving away prizes galore, including DVDs from Clint Weiler at MVD, some MISSION:MAGIC (Rick Springfield cartoon from 1973) DVDs from BCI, DVDs from World Cafe Live, and SCRAM! Magazines from Alamo pal and pop music archivist Kim Cooper!

PLUS! CANNED HAMM (visiting from Vancouver) plays LIVE before the movie!!

Notorious B-list actress Monica Gayle stars as jailbait Jamie, a product of a strict Baptist upbringing who runs away from her hillbilly home and hitches with a pair of truckers to Nashville to become a country-western star. After a run-in with some less-than-honorable men, 16-year-old Jamie reaches the big city, only to be groped by literally everyone she meets while she bounces between sleazy record producers, sleazier lesbian prison guards and (of course) various showers. Gayle appeared as the sinister Dagger Deb Patch in Jack Hill's SWITCHBLADE SISTERS the year before, and it's a testimony to her range as an actress that she pulls off the naive country girl with such dramatic aplomb, and the musical performances manage to parallel the film's drive-in insanity in a relentless bout of mind-boggling country-fried entertainment.

The original songs in this film are amazing, and singer Johnny Rodriguez and songwriters Rory Bourke, Gene Dobbins and John Wills give director Gus Trikonis' expose a stamp of approval, even though it's a roaring indictment of the music industry.

Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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