Cowboy in Flames

Waco Brothers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 28, 1997)
• Original Release Date: February 26, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bloodshot Records
• ASIN: B000001HTD
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,850 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I don't understand the harsh criticism below, April 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Cowboy in Flames (Audio CD)

If you're a fan of bands like the Mekons and the Clash who wants to hear passionate and intelligently played rock music with a tinge of country influence, then this CD is indeed masterful and you'll absolutely love it. If you came to it with any other sorts of expectations, you won't. The fact is that not all of the songs sound the same, but all have a wonderful boozy good-time vibe while simultaneously having something important to say lyrically. That decidedly uncommercial mix of styles certainly isn't for everyone, but within this genre of country-punk the Waco Brothers are as good as it gets.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Waco Brothers at their peak, June 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Cowboy in Flames (Audio CD)

This is still the Wacos' best album, even if the others are worth having (and they are). Their cover of Cash's classic "Big River" just makes you pine for them to record "Folsom Prison Blues" -- with which they traditionally finish their live shows in an all out jam that tears the tune apart by the end. "See Willy Fly By" is straight-up Waco Brothers -- sarcastic country/punk political satire that kicks your butt; "Fast Train Down" an excellent show tune that also works from the studio; and all finished off with "The Death of Country Music," a not-so-tongue-in-cheek manifesto for reinventing country music: "We'll spill some blood on the ashes/ of the bones of the Joneses and the Cashes . . . We're picking the flesh off the bones." Every song on this album has the quality that makes the best songs on their other albums so good. Wacoworld is a step down from this album, so Waco neophytes start here.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best album of 1997, or 1492, you pick the date., February 14, 1999

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This review is from: Cowboy in Flames (Audio CD)

Buy it NOW. Cash in your beer bottles, check behind the cusions in the couch, sell your TV, whatever it takes, you need this album. This is one of the most vital records I have heard in ages, and it gets better everytime I put it on. I t took me 5 plays before I could get to the second song simply because I kept replaying "See Willy Fly By" as soon as the fadeout started. Jon Langford and company have suceeded in waking Country Music from its current Stepford Wives state by coming to both bury it and to praise it. Buy this album and then work you way foreward and bacward through the Mekons/Langford/Wacos/PineValleyCosmonauts/SallyTimms/ family tree.