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Do You Think About Me<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1997<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Tracklist:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
<\/td><\/td>Do You Think About Me?<\/td>4:08<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Revolution Blues<\/td>2:40<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Wickedest City<\/td>2:17<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Arizona Rose<\/td>3:06<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>You Know Who<\/td>2:40<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Got To Be Someone<\/td>3:02<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Hard Times<\/td>3:02<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Napa Valley<\/td>3:39<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>South Bend<\/td>3:38<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td><\/td>Frightened<\/td>3:00<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Credits<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Alan Sprocket Doughty<\/a>* Bass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Leopard Leopard Boy Goulding<\/a> Drums<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dean Deano<\/a>* Guitar, Vocals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"JonJonboy<\/a>* Guitar, Vocals <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracey Dear<\/a> Mandolin, Vocals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"TheThe Wacos<\/a>* Producer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"BaronBaron Von Trumfio<\/a> Recorded By<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"KenKenny Sluiter<\/a>* Recorded B<\/p>\n\n\n\n

y\"MikeMike Hagler<\/a> Recorded By<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"MarkDurante<\/a>* Steel Guitar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviews:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A first review:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:42:05 -0400 (EDT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From: LindaRay64@aol.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To: postcard2@u.washington.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subject: Re: A smattering of questions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Message-ID: <970909014205_53202593@emout06.mail.aol.com><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMVHO (as a Wacos addict), Do you Think About Me is the best Wacos song ever<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(it\u2019s by Lonesome Bob and much as I love him they kick his butt with it. Of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

course, that\u2019s just what Wacos DO.) The second best Wacos song ever is Neil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young\u2019s Revolution Blues. I didn\u2019t think the rest of the record was as good<\/p>\n\n\n\n

as Flames, but I really love contrasting the sympathetic \u201cSouth Bend\u201d with<\/p>\n\n\n\n

anything on \u201c24 Hours a Day.\u201d The fact that I don\u2019t like some of it quite as<\/p>\n\n\n\n

well does not mean I\u2019d be willing to go through life without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope Chicago P2 ers will turn out for the release party (which,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

coincidentally, is on my birthday) It\u2019ll be a pretty happy one of the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

better ones with Moonshine Willy, the Waco Brothers, Sally Timms and Rico<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bell. P2ers will especially enjoy the spirit of \u201cNapa Valley\u201d: I\u2019ve been<\/p>\n\n\n\n

drunk a thousand times\/and I would sober up\/but there\u2019s no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politically, the target here is apathy. It\u2019s treated in at least two songs,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

maybe more. I can\u2019t remember. It\u2019s the thousandth time that gets ya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boston Globe \/ September 5, 1997, Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mekons\u2019 Jon Langford gets a little bit country;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY: By Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British-born singer-songwriter-guitarist Jon Langford often wears two or more hats, but at the moment, on holiday in southern Maine with his wife and child as summer\u2019s winding down, he\u2019s happy to report he\u2019s we\faring \u201cno hats at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Langford co-leads the Chicago-based country-punk Waco Brothers and the spread-all-over-the-map Mekons, the former of which has a CD called \u201cDo You Think About Me?\u201d out Sept. 16 on Bloodshot, and the latter of which shows up for a hootin\u2019 and hollerin\u2019 gig at the Middle East Downstairs Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Mekons gigs have always been an extension of . . . social life for me,\u201d says Langford. \u201cIt\u2019s always been quite a serious band with quite a serious agenda, but you go to a gig, and it\u2019s like you take something fun very seriously. That\u2019s the point of music on a Friday night. People have been doing that for hundreds of years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mekons, formed in 1977 in Leeds alongside fellow left-wing punkers Gang of Four, are noted for rattling cages and raising holy hell. They\u2019re a little bit country, a lot rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, and, depending on the mood, you\u2019ll find techno and dub creeping in, too. The Mekons, which are co-led by singer-songwriter-guitarist Tom Greenhalgh and can grow to nine members in concert, will be in our midst next week because of the \u201cMekons United Art Exhibit\u201d in New York, at the Threadwaxing Space, from Sept. 13 through Oct. 31. No joke. Various Mekons are painters. As such, they figured they\u2019d mount a quick East Coast tour while they were all gathered together. (Their label, Touch & Go\/Quarterstick, just reissued their 1980 album, \u201cMekons\u201d; they\u2019ll be recording a new one in Chicago shortly.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Waco Brothers? They started as a we\u2019ll-play-for-beer-money country-punk cover band for the relocated Langford and his pals, who include Mark Durante (KMFDM, Revco) and Alan Doughty (Jesus Jones). \u201cThe Wacos are just a chemically different selection of people similar to the Mekons,\u201d explains Langford, \u201cin the shared vocals and shared songwriting. Different because, geographically, it\u2019s a hometown band.\u201d (Drummer Steve Goulding wears the same hats as does Langford; he\u2019s also a Mekon.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both bands share a communal ethos, a welcome-to-the-clubhouse vibe. \u201cI like sweaty little clubs,\u201d says Langford, \u201cwhere there is some way to communicate. We always worried, when punk was going on, about the barrier between the audience and the band. There is a way of breaking that down, where you\u2019re all on the same level.\u201d From: http:\/\/www.imusic.com\/showcase\/country\/wacobrothers.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just when you thought it was safe to like tepid country rock crapola and third-rate, angst-ridden indie posturing again, your comrades at Chicago\u2019s own Bloodshot Records \u2014 the nation\u2019s sole purveyors of Insurgent Country music \u2014 are here to give you what you really need: a careening three-chord frontal assault, devilishly gleeful \u201cfuck-it-all\u201d delivery, glorious, down-in-flames, beer-logic despair, and a heart of solid coal. Ladies and germs! Presenting \u2014 Do You Think About Me \u2014 the new cd from THE WACO BROTHERS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we last heard from the Wacos, they were swinging a \u201cNine Pound Hammer\u201d on Bloodshot\u2019s Straight Outta Boone County compilation in the company of Robbie Fulks, Hazeldine and Holler, to name a few. Now the cheese stands along \u2014 witness ten all new-songs that piss on and subsequently blur the lines between punk and country. From the horn-driven album-opening title number (call it \u201cExile on Waco Street\u201d), to the blitzkrieg cover of Neil Young\u2019s \u201cRevolution Blues\u201d (they ain\u2019t called the Waco Brothers for nothin\u2019), to weaving, whiskey-addled waltzes and swinging, spooky-ass barnburners \u2013Do You Think About Me is guaranteed to rock the union hall. Some of these tracks are spilt-over from the acclaimed To The Last Dead Cowboy and Cowboy in Flames sessions – songs too good to die \u2014 and be sure to listen out for our old pal Tom Ray of The Bottle Rockets whomping the double bass on a few songs. All together its 31 minutes of Waco greatness \u2014 where country spirit beats the hell out of country form \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introducing the hardest drinking men in show business:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jon Langford (Mekons, Steve Goulding (Mekons, Poi Dog, Rumour), Dean Schlabowske (Wreck), Mark Durante (KMFDM, RevCo), Alan Doughty (Jesus Jones), and Tracey Dear (world\u2019s greatest living Englishman). v Do You Think About Me delivers a swift kick in the bread basket to the chickenshit and complacent, and serves as a moral centerpiece for the whole Insurgent Country movement. Keep ahead of the mounting, smoldering wreckage and don\u2019t let the revolution pass you by\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From: <\/strong>http:\/\/members.aol.com\/countryst1\/CDwacobrothers.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Waco Brothers once again explore the common angst of punk and country – with a definite leaning to the former. Only \u201cArizona Rose\u201d and \u201cYou Know Who\u201d feature vocals and instrumentation which would not seem foreign to your traditional-based country listener. While some tracks have insurgent country twang, others are strictly rock oriented. The opening title track recalls the Stones, and others such as \u201cFrightened\u201d and Neil Young\u2019s \u201cRevolution Blues\u201d are clearly Clash-like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Wacos (featuring members of The Mekons and Jesus Jones amongst others) don\u2019t display the reverence for country music that Bloodshot labelmates Robbie Fulks and the Grevious Angels appear to have, this one should appeal to the insurgent country listener coming at it from a predominantly punk background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Robert Wooldridge Another review by Linda Ray, from No Depression, Jan. 98.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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