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ELECTRIC WACO CHAIR
Waco Brothers
(Bloodshot/Outside)
"History is written by the winners; this is a loser's song," confesses Jon Langford on Walking on Hell's Roof Looking at the Flowers, the wryly titled fifth song on the fifth album from his Chicago alt-country rabble-rousers Waco Brothers. Well, if Langford and the boys are losers, at least they're going down swinging. Electric Waco Chair is a sharp spur stuck square in the flank of insurgent country, with this star-studded lineup -- Mekon and Pine Valley Cosmonaut Langford, former Graham Parker drummer Steve Goulding, ex-Jesus Jones bassist Alan Doughty, KMFDM's Mark Durante on pedal steel, singer-guitarist Dean Schlabowske and mandolin god Tracey Dear -- delivering some of their strongest songs yet. And some of their most unforgettable, from the scrappy defiance of Where in the World and Make Things Happen to the two-fisted drinking songs like Where the Mighty Fall and When I Get My Rewards. "At the peak of my popularity, I'm crumbling into dust," grumbles Jon on It's Not Enough. Impending doom never sounded so damn cool.
Track Listing
1. It's Not Enough
2. Make Things Happen
3. Where the Mighty Fall
4. Jamaican Radio Obituary
5. Walking on Hell's Roof Looking at the Flowers
6. Cornered
7. Where in the World
8. When I Get My Rewards
9. Circle Tour
10. Nothing to Say
11. Fox River
12. Dragging My Own Tombstone
13. Never Real