waco brothers resist

​Waco Brothers (from the album Resist! available on Bloodshot Records)
Country purity was on the mind of Jon Langford when he formed Waco Brothers as a vehicle for his songs to stay true while his UK-born band, The Mekons, set up a new home in Chicago, Illinois with a more Punk Rock edge. That was in 1995, and over the course of thirteen albums Waco Brothers have honed the Country they claim as their own, taking the music back to its origins in writing songs to reflect the lives of real people living in all-too-real times. Under a flag of Country Rock’n’Roll Waco Brothers wave the banner of protest on dozen tracks of the recent release, Resist!, its music going right for the heart as its words light torches and head for the castle gates. 
 
Guitars snarl when Waco Brothers ride into the Resist! town of tunes on the adrenaline-dosed spaghetti western tale of opening cut “Blink of an Eye” while the pace slows to a trot as “$ Bill the Cowboy” walks a presidential march and “Lincoln Town Car” cruises by with horses humming under its hood. Taking a description directly from the Bloodshot Records press release, Resist! has as its main characters ‘folks getting shit on and songs about the system that’s doing the shitting’. Borrowing an outlaw anthem from Bobby Fuller Four, Waco Brothers continue their song tribute to forebearers as they do a clean rip of The Clash’s arrangement for “I Fought the Law”. Resist! takes aim and hits its mark with the warnings of “Bad Times Are Coming Round Again” and proudly stamps union made on the Rockabilly rhythms of “Plenty Tough” as Waco Brothers give a backbeat to resistance in “Revolution Blues”, trying to keep pace with the big boys on the fast-train stomp of “No Heart” while they shake out snake oil to grease the rattle and roll of “New Deal Blues”.
 
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