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12 Golden Country Greats (CD)

By: Ween (Artist)

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DISC 1 for 12 Golden Country Greats (CD) Album By Ween (Artist)
1   I'm Holding You
2   Japanese Cowboy
3   Piss Up A Rope
4   I Don't Wanna Leave You On The Farm
5   Pretty Girl
6   Powder Blue
7   Mister Richard Smoker
8   Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain
9   You Were The Fool
10   Fluffy
 

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Review

Spin (8/96, p.103) - Reasonably Good - "...What makes 12 GOLDEN COUNTRY GREATS a decent Ween record is its transposition of real country into the world of post-indie-rock smart-asses..."
Q (9/96, p.124) - 3 Stars - Good - "...mimicking a myriad of country styles and stereotypes while lyrically tipping the stetson towards the stoned yoof of alternative America..."
Alternative Press (10/96, p.108) - "...Not only have Ween gone country, but they've done it up right....The results are as perverse as ever, juxtaposing fairly mainstream musical arrangements...with bizarre lyrics and imagery..."
Melody Maker (8/3/96, p.50) - Recommended - "...Bitter, nerdish misogyny was never conveyed with such tender beauty as on this album..."

Title Note

Ween: Gene Ween, Dean Ween.

Additional personnel: The Jordanaires (vocals); Pete Wade (guitar, dobro, 6-string bass); Russ Hicks (pedal steel); Buddy Blackman (banjo); Buddy Spicher (fiddle, mandolin); Denis Solee (clarinet); Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Bobby Ogdin (piano); Charlie McCoy (bass, harmonica, percussion, vibraphone, organ, trumpet, tenor banjo, tuba); Bob Wray, Kip Paxton (bass); Buddy Harman, Gene Chrisman (drums).

Recorded at Bradley's Barn, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, on November 2-8, 1995.

As the title implies, this is Gene and Dean Ween's Nashville move. And for those familiar with the duo's flexible and comedic musical nature: no, they're not faking the cowboy swagger or shedding counterfeit tears in their beers just for the sake of digging through the one genre their previous records didn't excavate. Backed by a who's who of Music City session players, Ween has produced an authentic update of the late-'60s/early-'70s countrypolitan sound--weepy pedal steel, footloose harmonica, boogie piano, the Jordanaires crooning in the background, pristine production, pretty much all the fixins.

But if you're looking for a collection of cornball breakup songs and half-baked cowboy tales, well, as Judas Priest says, you've got another thing coming. Gene and Dean, after all, have their own standards to live up to; and they've never above lowering them. So the breakup song ("Piss Up A Rope") is viciously upbeat; the sinner's repentance is titled "Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain"; and even the one serious song, the Lennon-esque "You Were The Fool," contains the kind of cosmic couplets country fans would normally have to reach pretty far afield (toward, say, Gram Parsons) to find. Such Ween-foolery allows Gene and Dean to have their country, in a most heartfelt way, and eat it too.

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