Description:
Henry Wallace, vice president to FDR, ran on the 3rd party Progressive ticket in 1948, crusading for the common man. Matthew Grimm finds some natural kinship with the fellow expatriate Iowan as he and the Dogs bust and blast through 13 tracks, beer-steeped, pissed off and fun as ever. They lament an apathetic and misinformed young America, and skewer everyone from work-a-day corporate drones to `new-country` music starlets - challenging these lip-glossed lightweights over a loping country shuffle, "If you`re so country, then Drink Yourself To Death". Along with cutting insights and kick-ass alt-country, they`ve got some beautiful balladry here too, wringing new emotion from a cover of "Midnight Train To Georgia" and the heartbreaker "She`s Leaving You". The guys again prove they`re as smart as they are drunk, as melodic as they are malicious. (Crazyhead)
