If you subscribe to the dubious theory that most white folks should be banned from rapping, dabbling in the blues, or forming perma-peppy ska bands, it might follow that Brits shouldn’t be tackling Americana. When you come from a country […]
If you subscribe to the dubious theory that most white folks should be banned from rapping, dabbling in the blues, or forming perma-peppy ska bands, it might follow that Brits shouldn’t be tackling Americana. When you come from a country […]
So what’s it like to listen to the Waco Brothers as a guy? Do you want to be them? Do you want to take them on? Do you want to drink them under the table? Or do they scare you, […]
Johnboy Langford and his Wobbly Bottom Boys are back in action — term used loosely, as “action” in the Wacos’ world is generally squinted at from under a dive’s table, flat on one’s back. Seriously, the Pogues ain’t got nuthin’ […]
The Waco Brothers love to boast of their passion for applying a metaphorical steel-toed boot to the collective posterior of contemporary country music. But their last album — WacoWorld, a clumsy clunker that tried much too hard — gave off […]
Nothing quite compares to the six drunkard Waco Brothers squeezing onto that plank-of-a-stage at the annual Yard Dog party at SXSW and whipping up a bloody-good, supercharged country fury. Undoubtedly, it is an annual highlight, but is poses a Waco-specific […]
The Waco Brothers put out the gnarliest of a more sentimental crop of roots rockers last year — twice, for good measure. Mostly a collection of outtakes, the ten-song CD Do You Think About Me was intended to be the […]
“When it started, the whole purpose of this band was to get beer and money,” Waco Brothers ringleader Jon Langford says of the band’s $50-a-gig beginnings a couple years ago. In the bargain, club owners in the band’s hometown of […]
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