BR5-49 - BR549 - Dog Days CD: Alt Country
1. Poison
2. After the Hurricane
3. Lower Broad St. Blues
4. Leave It Alone
5. Bottom of Priority
6. Devil & Me, The
7. I'm Goin' Down
8. You Are the Queen
9. Cajun Persuasion
10. A-1 on the Jukebox
11. Let Jesus Make You Breakfast
BR5-49: Chuck Mead (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Don Herron (vocals, steel guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, electric mandolin, fiddle, viola, organ, Hammond b-3 organ); Mark Miller (vocals, acoustic bass, electric bass); Shaw Wilson (vocals, drums); John Keane.
BR5-49's second record after both a major line-up shift (most notably the departure of co-founder Gary Bennett) and a switch to the Dualtone label, DOG DAYS finds the country-rock group settling into Phase Two of its existence. As on 2004's TANGLED IN THE PINES, vocalist/guitarist Chuck Mead is the chief creative force of the self-professed "hillbilly" band, leading BR5-49 through odes to the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast (the thoughtful "After the Hurricane") and Nashville (the sauntering "Lower Broad St. Blues"), among other fine tunes. Although the ensemble has been pegged with the "alt-country" tag in the past, this album solidifies BR5-49's standing as a straightforward, traditionally minded country band.
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