Title: An early, disappointing CD
Product review: 24 Hours A Day and Leftovers are such perfect albums that I expected earlier records to pale in comparison. I wasn't ready, though, for how weak a CD their eponymous 1993 release is. Songs like Gas Girl, Trailer Mama, and Wave That Flag are forced at best. Both the lyrics and music sound like they were written in a rush. The melodies aren't catchy, and the attempts at cleverness come across as trite and dumb. There are some more heavy-duty country songs in here, but they don't fit with the rest of the CD. Kerosene and the heavy Rural Route are the two standouts, though I'm still not sure if the former is meant to be serious or a joke (it's about people who died in a trailer fire because they put gasoline in their kerosene heater: "if kerosene works why not gasoline?"). A major disappointment for me.
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