{"id":71,"date":"2022-03-05T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2023-03-10T20:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T20:14:17","slug":"cowboys-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys In Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cowboy In Flames<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Tracklist:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

See Willy Fly By
Waco Express
Take Me To The Fires
Out There A Ways
Dollar Dress
Out In The Light
Cowboy In Flames
Fast Train Down
Wreck On The Highway
Dry Land
Do What I Say
White Lightning
Big River
The Death Of Country Music<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credits:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\"AlanAlan Sprocket Doughty<\/a>* Bass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Steve Steve „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, Vocal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mark Sub Commandante Marcus Durante<\/a>* Steel Guitar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iggy Yoachum<\/a> Vocals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviews:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Led by the Mekons\u2019 Jon Langford and also containing a number of other indie-rock refugees, this insurgent-country band comes on like rowdy drinking buddies who also happen to be committed leftists. The Wacos bring plenty of punk attitude to their boisterous performances, while laying bare the pain inflicted by corporate and government power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wacos carry along their militant politics with equally hard-hitting music that sounds like a rowdy Texas honky tonk taken over by committed punk rockers. Their raucous, invigorating sound makes an appropriate vehicle for the scathing attack on government abuse in the album title song, and the portrayal of the deadening working-class grind in \u201cFast Train Down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with their own originals, the Wacos also turn out three spirited covers of country classics. Occasionally, the band\u2019s raggedness limits their effectiveness. In particular, some of the songs could\u2019ve used stronger vocals. And there\u2019s also an unsuccessful attempt to resurrect the overused Bo Diddley beat in \u201cOut In The Light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the Wacos\u2019 second album is an often-stirring document of hard-hitting music and politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Don Yates<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days Leeds punk-rock intellectual and prophet without honour Jon Langford is ensconced in Chicago\u2019s alternative country rock scene, The Waco Brothers being but one of the red-faced Mekon\u2019s many musical outlets. If The Clash had followed through their Joe Ely fixation, they might have made an album like Cowboy In Flames. On See Willy Fly By and Take Me To The Fires Langford\u2019s guttural growl sounds so much like Joe Strummer it\u2019s almost unsettling. A suspiciously pseudonymous \u2018Deano\u2019 lends his gentler vocal tones to the less strident songs, and even the occasional Tex Mex stylings are dispatched with enough energy and conviction to silence any sarcastic Yee-hah!s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart Lee -Q<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest chapter in the saga of Los Hermanos Wacos. Here\u2019s a wicked little skunk tossed into the tent of bloated, co?\u0012\fr?\u0012rrupt excesses. Making good on their promise (or was that a threat??) of their first record, the Wacos deliver a slab brimming with grim romanticism, and joyous, near ecstatic, drunken stomps. Join the cause as they strip the fat and greasepaint off country music\u2019s carcass and build a pagan temple out of its bones. In addition to the anthemic (and we don\u2019t bandy that word around lightly) originals, there are scalding versions of \u201cWhite Lightning,\u201d \u201cWreck On The Highway,\u201d and \u201cBig River.\u201d We think you\u2019ll agree, \u201cCowboy In Flames\u201d is a sure tonic to wash the taste of disgust out of a parched nation\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPossessed by the demon of rock\u2019n’roll, haunted by the ghosts of old country music\u2026to make matters better, the group\u2019s originals are so consistently inspired they come across as instant classics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Verna Billboard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey may be pillaging country\u2019s grave, but in the Waco Brothers\u2019 hands, such Go to the top desecration becomes an act of reverence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Kot Chicago Reader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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