{"id":82,"date":"2022-03-05T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2023-03-07T09:51:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T09:51:38","slug":"waco-express-live-kickin-at-schubas-tavern-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Waco Express Live &amp; Kickin&#8216; At Schuba&#8217;s Tavern, Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-elements-25c9a74884e38b7f67727c3587b15f4a wp-block-media-text alignfull has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top has-text-color has-background has-link-color\" style=\"color:#fffdc7;background-color:#121c1c;grid-template-columns:auto 44%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"is-layout-flow wp-elements-19fbf8191d6bf86a38a2d23d7f0d491c wp-block-group has-link-color\" style=\"padding-top:2em;padding-right:2em;padding-bottom:2em;padding-left:2em\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:48px;font-weight:700;line-height:1.15\">Waco Express Live &amp; Kickin&#8216; At Schuba&#8217;s Tavern, Chicago<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-elements-ce17acaa6da5c5d82c84fd9c01aa34ff has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-text-color has-link-color\">Bloodshot 2008<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"437\" src=\"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3C693014-05DA-48BE-97B7-F5BA8D9A7B6D.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3C693014-05DA-48BE-97B7-F5BA8D9A7B6D.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3C693014-05DA-48BE-97B7-F5BA8D9A7B6D-300x262.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Waco Express<\/td><td>3:24<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Blink Of An Eye<\/td><td>2:56<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Too Sweet To Die<\/td><td>2:58<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Red Brick Wall<\/td><td>4:03<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Cowboy In Flames<\/td><td>3:23<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Fox River<\/td><td>4:06<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Hello Roof<\/td><td>2:46<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Do What I Say<\/td><td>2:35<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Missing Link<\/td><td>4:06<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>If You Don&#8217;t Change Your Mind<\/td><td>3:48<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Death Of Country Music<\/td><td>3:01<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Nothing At All<\/td><td>2:44<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Plenty Tuff Union Made<\/td><td>3:49<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Harm&#8217;s Way<\/td><td>2:36<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Revolution Blues<\/td><td>2:56<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><\/td><td>Take Me To The Fires<\/td><td>4:16<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">Credits:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/524039-Dan-Dietrich\">Dan Dietrich<\/a>Mixed By<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/qxedNapeolJew6f45lAX1CZoipQBXk10lNTm50zt7M4\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:40\/h:300\/w:300\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9BLTUyMTkw\/MS0xMjAwMDAwNDIw\/LmpwZWc.jpeg\" alt=\"The Waco Brothers\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/521901-The-Waco-Brothers\">The Wacos<\/a>*Mixed By<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/GIGieqFNgMx9vZXPhaYX5kbV1sMsbn9yRvpPPHqm3ws\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:40\/h:300\/w:300\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9BLTEwMjgx\/NzQtMTQ0MDc2OTI1\/Ny0yMTgxLmpwZWc.jpeg\" alt=\"Alan Doughty\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/1028174-Alan-Doughty\">Alan Doughty<\/a>Performer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/tDV1s-M7it-JtH6ZWzeRgANXMKHujB19eKsDu_hOnp0\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:40\/h:300\/w:300\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9BLTExNDQz\/OTYtMTU4NTI5MDc4\/Ni04OTI0LmpwZWc.jpeg\" alt=\"Dean Schlabowske\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/1144396-Dean-Schlabowske\">Deano<\/a>*Performer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/BMC86FiYmCWdQcvbHKljfEMMKkZPjDwGhzPmShjo0x4\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:40\/h:300\/w:300\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9BLTI4OTI5\/Ny0xNjQyMDI2Njg0\/LTUxMTIuanBlZw.jpeg\" alt=\"Jon Langford (2)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/289297-Jon-Langford-2\">Jonboy<\/a>*Performer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/4oc7ZXeZNkTlYBuL9Jvgk-r4-IuMv4quRyNR1iuwhYw\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:40\/h:300\/w:300\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9BLTIzNDE3\/MS0xMTM3ODg3NDY3\/LmpwZWc.jpeg\" alt=\"Mark Durante\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/234171-Mark-Durante\">Durantula<\/a>*Performer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/F4E2JWlhRcamZClyDyMvgKCVeNUlSQivtOMddPWGn4Q\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:40\/h:300\/w:300\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9BLTQyNzg4\/Mi0xNTcyNzY4NTcz\/LTc0NDguanBlZw.jpeg\" alt=\"Steve Goulding\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/427882-Steve-Goulding\">Lil&#8216; Willie Goulding<\/a>*Performer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/On_TXYkYXyWPrQFtXVZ3DI7ybWWGHM6XR0eOjZRFQGw\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:40\/h:300\/w:300\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9BLTI3NjE3\/MzUtMTY0NDQ1ODIx\/OS00NzI3LmpwZWc.jpeg\" alt=\"Tracy Dear\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/2761735-Tracy-Dear\">TD<\/a>*Performer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/iZ30zfrr3sP-HZdI7zIHYm730RB7Tb74jVfduVXlik8\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:40\/h:300\/w:300\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9BLTMzNzE5\/NS0xNDIzNDk4OTU2\/LTE5NTcuanBlZw.jpeg\" alt=\"Timothy Powell\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/337195-Timothy-Powell\">Tim Powell<\/a>*Recorded By<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.discogs.com\/qxedNapeolJew6f45lAX1CZoipQBXk10lNTm50zt7M4\/rs:fit\/g:sm\/q:40\/h:300\/w:300\/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz\/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt\/YWdlcy9BLTUyMTkw\/MS0xMjAwMDAwNDIw\/LmpwZWc.jpeg\" alt=\"The Waco Brothers\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/de\/artist\/521901-The-Waco-Brothers\">Waco Brothers<\/a>*Written-By<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">Reviews:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bloodshot says:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full of shout-along manifestos and strident tomfoolery from each of their seven studio albums, Waco Express lives up to the mandate given to the mastering engineer to \u201cerr on the side of massive, fierce and overwhelming.\u201d Critical darlings since their unleashing, featuring a scribe-ready lineup of members from the Mekons, Jesus Jones, Wreck, Gang of Four and others, as well as a genre-bending fearlessness, the Waco Brothers have always saved their best for the stage. The live shows, particularly at SXSW and CMJ, are events of genuine reverence for their leave-it-all-out-there-this-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>should-be-FUN-dammit convictions. Over the years, this fervor has resulted in an onstage wedding proposal betwixt two fans (SXSW \u201802), a riot (Edinburgh \u201803), and a thousand and one lost nights of sweaty, happy reverie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, there\u2019s always been the undercurrent of grousing, as good as the studio albums are, that, well, it\u2019s not like BEING there. Well, now it is. On Waco Express, you can practically feel the heat from the stage, smell the smoke on your clothes, taste the beery taste of beer and let your ears bask in the un-tempered wall of sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the first Wacos CD hit the streets in 1995, punk AND country were lying torpid, shaming their respective populist histories. Fifteen years later, the problem has gotten nothing but worse, with one shilling for cruise lines and luxury cars and the other blathering on with a jingoistic fervor not seen since Remember the Maine! Quite frankly, we need the Wacos now more than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything here is bristling with energy, righteous anger and driving, emphatic rock\u2019n&#8217;roll.\u201d Iowa City Press Citizen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a potent mix, the headlong rush alongside well-worn skill, the half-drunken banter next to razor sharp social commentary, and it comes across as unstudied, no, as a force of nature in this uniformly excellent CD. The only problem with this album is that it reminds you, like a kick in the head, that you should have been at this show, instead of only hearing it second hand. That\u2019s the acid test for the best concert recordings, and Waco Express passes easily.\u201d \u201cPopMatters.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile they\u2019ve never risen above cult-hero status, this superbly recorded live document will leave you wondering why\u2026the band is shit hot [and] they serve up all killer, no filler.\u201d Mike Usinger No Depression<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis collection of songs is strong enough to sub for the Waco Brothers \u201cGreatest Hits\u201d album that in a better world would be filling an end cap at a newly unionized Wal-Mart.\u201d allmusic.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greil Marcus: Elephant dancing: why the new Waco Brothers album is not just \u201clive\u201d but alive<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four songs into their uproarious Waco Express: Live &amp; Kickin\u2019 at Schubas Tavern (Bloodshot), the Waco Brothers combine pure blues, honky-tonk country, and stand-up comedy. They\u2019re a so-called mutant country band composed mostly of U.K. expatriates\u2013guitarist Jon Langford, mandolinist Tracey Dear, bassist Alan Doughty, drummer Steve Goulding\u2013plus steel guitarist Mark Durante and guitarist Dean Schlabowske, both originally from Milwaukee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Waco Express it doesn\u2019t matter whether you get out much or not; you\u2019re right there in Schubas Tavern as if you\u2019re there five nights a week. The musicians have brought their beers onstage, they\u2019re pushing and insulting each other, greeting friends in the crowd, announcing themselves with \u201cWaco Express,\u201d which inevitably comes off as a version of \u201cHey, hey, we\u2019re the Monkees.\u201d They bash their way through three songs. And then something breaks\u2013a glass, the space-time continuum, lightning striking through the roof, it doesn\u2019t matter. Everything is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s one of those moments that can happen only in a small club or a hall where the crowd is on its feet because there\u2019s nowhere to sit down. It\u2019s a sense of event: Something is about to happen. No, something has already happened\u2013the emotional weather has changed. \u201cThis song\u2019s about a red brick wall, arrrgggghhhh!\u201d Langford screams, all but spewing Guinness along with the words. And then it\u2019s as if the band isn\u2019t playing the song but chasing it. An exploding pattern of low guitar sparks makes a sound so hard you can almost touch it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schlabowske is standing tall in the middle, telling his tale of woe\u2013drunk in an alley, consumed by guilt, lost and abandoned, trussed up on a bed like a pig. That he sounds more corn-fed than James Stewart only makes the pictures his words draw in your head more ludicrous. And then he says something you don\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the day of his death I built JFK a shrine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, on the day of his death I built JFK a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>shrine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly, the classic form of thousands and thousands of blues songs, where the setup of a repeated first line (\u201dI can set right here look on Jackson Avenue\/I can set right here look on Jackson Avenue\u201d) is completed by a third line that feels inevitable as soon as you hear it (\u201dI can see everything that my good woman do\u201d) is turned inside out. Inevitable? \u201cI built JFK a shrine\u201d? What could follow that? The music rushes forward, but the song suspends itself; the break between the repeated first two lines and the third is filled with suspense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve never heard anything like it\u2013and that the third line, now the punch line, falls just short of the first is, somehow, absolutely right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRed Brick Wall\u201d isn\u2019t the best song on Waco Express\u2013it isn\u2019t even close. It merely raises the stakes, to the point where Langford\u2019s even faster, harsher, brutally bitter \u201cHell\u2019s Roof\u201d can take so much out of someone who just stumbled in for a good time, you might feel the band ought to pay the audience rather than the other way around. Schlabowske is back with the gorgeous, swirling motel-room ballad \u201cIf You Don\u2019t Change Your Mind.\u201d \u201cHarm\u2019s Way\u201d is a happy-go-lucky stampede so bright and mindless (\u201dWell, every time I think of my baby, working in that old coal mine\/I feel so doggone guilty, I\u2013\u201d) you know nothing can go wrong. One song before the throwaway closer that lets the band off the stage to join everyone else at the bar, there is \u201cRevolution Blues.\u201d With big, dramatic flourishes, voices making cheesy horror-movie \u201cwoo-woo-woo\u2019s,\u201d the beat moving like a runaway stagecoach without a driver, Schubas Tavern falls away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s Neil Young\u2019s song about the Manson family. When he sang it on On the Beach in 1974, the pace was slow, almost lazy, the voice laconic, a hipster\u2019s knowing smile behind every line: \u201cI\u2019ll kill them in their cars.\u201d As Langford races through the territory, half-scared, half out for blood, you catch that like a flash of light if you catch it at all. You feel the tension, all but scraping your skin. Something terrible is about to happen. No, it\u2019s worse than that: Something terrible has already happened, and you\u2019ve forgotten what it was. The song moves too fast, its words buried in its drive: The Waco Brothers aren\u2019t going to tell you what happened, only that it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of good nights out don\u2019t give you that much to take home, that much to keep you awake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waco Express 3:24 Blink Of An Eye 2:56 Too Sweet To Die 2:58 Red Brick Wall 4:03 Cowboy In Flames 3:23 Fox River 4:06 Hello Roof 2:46 Do What I Say 2:35 Missing Link 4:06 If You Don&#8217;t Change Your Mind 3:48 Death Of Country Music 3:01 Nothing At All 2:44 Plenty Tuff Union Made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wacobrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}