Editorial Reviews
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Music Review
Charpentier: Unedited Organ Works
Bach to Mozart: Flute & Harpsichord Sonatas, Vol. 3
Music: Return to the Sabbat [Import]
Austin City Limits Music Festival: 2004 [Live]
Big Time Sensuality Pt.2 [CD-single] [Import]
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Can a Chicago bar band fronted by a transplanted British punk rocker rekindle the torch of honky-tonk tradition? Launched by the Mekons' Jon Langford as a beer-guzzling genre exercise, the Wacos have become less revivalists than reconstructionists, renewing the spirit if not the style of classic roadhouse renegades. Within the blue-collar populism of anthems such as "Walking on Hell's Roof Looking at the Flowers" and "Dragging My Own Tombstone," the rhythm section and electric guitar carry a rock & roll charge, while the pedal steel and occasional fiddle throughout the album provide a tinge of vintage country. There's no filler among these 13 tracks, as Langford alternates vocals with the sweeter-voiced Dean Schlabowske, and the results split the difference between Johnny Cash and the Clash. --Don McLeese
Album Description
Back for their fifth record, our favorite anti-death penalty, socialist country rockers are playing Johnny Cash to your condemned Folsom prision lifer. Shave your head and get ready cause Jonboy, Deano, Tracy, Alan, Lil' Willy and Durante are gonna fill it up with a few thousand volts of roots rock moxie, punk disgust and country heart.