Editorial Reviews
Waco World
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Music Review
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Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Country as played by punks--an idea whose time has come. With their fourth album, the Waco Brothers mellow out just a little, and the result is like smooth whiskey. Songs like "The Hand That Throws the Bottle Down" and "Broken Down Row" carry one all the way through depression and out the other side. --Genevieve Williams
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Waco World is more of the reverb-filled, punkified skronky-tonk for which Welsh-born frontman Jon(boy) Langford has become known, through solo gigs, through the beloved 20-year-standing Mekons, and most recently with the cowpunk of Chicago's Wacos. Yet where the Wacos' previous outings have consistently sounded the way a post-bike-wreck, blood-and-gravel knee feels, Waco World adds salve to the sting, blow to the burn. The surprisingly restrained splendor of "Broken Down Row" contrasts with the... read more