"Missionary Ridge Pledges the Sound of Andy Bodean and the Bottom Boys" Playing a slippery brand of Power Pop with a peripheral Roots Rock twist, Andy Bodean and the Bottom Boys might hail from the middle of Tennessee, but purists shouldn't come looking for like-minded traditionalists. While the trio has distinctively traditional elements in their sound, they smush them all together, blindfold them, spin them around and set them loose, ending up with something of a carnival ride of fun, dented Americana/Pop. The common thread for the Bottom Boys is a drilling, hyper-melodic sensibility -- "Missionary Ridge," the title cut from the group's last EP, is a guitar-driven collage of hooks that stick like pickles on the lunchroom ceiling. That is, until the tail end of the song, when the band rips into an electrifying Bluegrass rant that comes on like a blindsiding tackle. On "A Dream in Blue" from the same EP, the Boys rewire a mid-tempo weeper to sound like John Lennon playing Honky Tonk. It's that kind of unpredictability within the course of a three-to-four minute Pop structure that makes Andy Bodean and the Bottom Boys such an undeniably pleasurable listen. To paraphrase a famous fictional doofus, putting a Bottom Boys CD into your player and pressing "Random" is like a box of chocolates -- you never know what you're going to get. But damn if they all aren't all sweet and delicious. If they can be this jauntily entertaining on record, the group's live show should be a blast.