The strangely brutal '70s phenomenon of roller derby--used since as shorthand for the weirdness of that decade--has popped up again in another surreal time: the now. And who better to voice the hickish, visceral pleasures of the sport than the snarly likes of Dale Watson and the Donnas?
They are sexy! They are tough! They are superb athletes and they have very real lives – they are the ROLLERGIRLS, and they are at the center of a mounting national phenomenon. But, be warned, the lives of these ROLLERGIRLS entails much more than what happens in the Thunderdome.