Stay Poor / Stay Happy

Cub Country | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Future Farmer
• ASIN: B0002ZDWQC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #797,543 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Be Yer Own Hitman

2. The Salt Islands

3. Good Job Jer Blues

4. Missed the Train

5. If We Should Fall

6. O Holy Bridge

7. Leaving the Bar

8. The West

9. 59 Grand

10. The Sun

Editorial Reviews

Pitchfork

"A shot of Cub Country is the cure for what ails ya."  

Product Description

Cub Country is Jeremy Chatelain from JETS TO BRAZIL. 'Stay Poor/Stay Happy' showcases Jeremy's undeniable songwriting / musical talent and serves as a solid follow-up to 2002's debut 'High Uinta High' . The album was mixed by Brian Paulson (of prior Wilco & Superchunk projects, to name just two).

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the real deal..., November 17, 2004

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Brooklyn Cowboy (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stay Poor / Stay Happy (Audio CD)

Cub Country's Stay Poor/Stay Happy earns the best compliment I can give a record--I fell in love with it, driving down a dark highway in the middle of the night with it playing at top volume. Equal parts alt.country and rootsy alt.rock, it moves from tales of lost love to vignettes of wistful hope with taut, inventive lyrics.

In "The Salt Islands," frontman Jeremy Chatelain takes a wistful look back at an old, dead affair without a trace of sentimentality: "There's a swimming hole/down by the gravel pit/that people dare to jump in/So you went first/And when I took my turn/you were gone/without a trace or sound/and I swam on/Preteding I was fine." and then moves into the graceful chorus: "History's no mystery/where it stopped from you to me/There are never words left to explain/How my days turn to nights/and you disappeared from sight/And I lost all of your things along the way."

There's elements of Gram Parsons and the Replacements and some Stones like (think Sticky Fingers) guitar work on this record, but it's all put together with grace and an affection for melody that makes Cub Country it's own animal.

Buy this record. You will not be sorry.