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Title: A weak distillation of the Uncle Tupelo sound
Review: This was a very disappointing buy. I immediately returned it when I realized the best song was basically the borrowed chords and vibe of Neil Young's "Thrasher" with different and sometimes embarrassingly pretentious lyrics; show me someone who can use the word "artifact" in a country/rock song without sounding ridiculous, and I have a bridge in NYC to sell you!This stuff doesn't come anywhere close to the raw honest emotion of Paul Westerberg's stuff when he was still writing great songs. Whiskeytown's attempt at a hard-luck, wizened stance sounds like a total pose to me, especially when I saw them playing on public television and noticed how much hairspray and or money their singer must have spent on his carefully messed-up hair!He does have a good voice, but they might be better off as a Gram Parsons cover band.
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