Box Lunch

Cub Koda | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: J-Bird Records
• ASIN: B000006PXS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #289,704 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. We Were Crazy Back Then

2. Double Barrel Hell

3. Too Much Pain

4. No Matter What You Say

5. How Could Life Turn Out This Way

6. Runaway Heart

7. Gimme Trash

8. My Luck's Gone All to the Bad

9. Susan Hayward's Diary

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blues masterpiece, July 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Box Lunch (Audio CD)

Every song on this CD is excellent. It's passionate all-acoustic blues and roots rock. Koda's big gravelly voice and songwriting talent blew me away. The liner notes say he recorded it over a four-day period at a friend's studio. Anyone who can produce something like this in four days is a genius. I don't know how I managed to miss this when it first came out, and I wish I hadn't.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An American classic!, January 9, 2002

By 

L. Hall (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Box Lunch (Audio CD)

Step aside, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger and so on--this is the voice of America. Classic roots rock and blues, straight from the heart (or the gut). Cub's voice sounds like the voice of a man who's smoked several hundred thousand cigarettes, got run over by a tractor, and thinks he might lose the one woman he loves. What a voice. Powerful stuff. Powerful lyrics. Amazing guitar work too.

5.0 out of 5 stars CUB'S KODA, May 22, 2011

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Jukebox Dave (RECORD TOWN, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Box Lunch (Audio CD)

CUB KODA-BOX LUNCH: A stark, dark, and "outta the park" performance from ex-BROWNSVILLE STATION frontman CUB KODA, who turns down the volume as he turns up the pathos for this true solo effort; his yearning gutbucket rasp is accompanied only by a lonesome acoustic guitar and the occasional harmonica tweak. Song titles DOUBLE BARREL HELL and MY LUCK'S GONE ALL TO BAD hint at the album's low-down 'n dirty blooze theme, a longtime KODA forte stamped with his craggy HOWLIN' WOLF-channeled delivery. GIMME TRASH is the rare light-hearted ditty here, namechecking TV LAND and greasy fries, while HOW COULD LIFE TURN OUT THIS WAY is a fitting epitaph for the CUBMASTER, who died shortly after this album's release. That a cat could be so "semi-mental" on SMOKIN' IN THE BOYS ROOM and so sentimental on BOX LUNCH is truly a thing to marvel at.

RATING: FIVE FRONT PORCHES