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Bluegrass punk
These guys are GREAT!
same 'ol tasty meal
Bad Livers Mix Metaphors & Music For A Big Bluegrass Mush

Industry and Thrift
Bad Livers
Manufacturer: Sugarhill [Country]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000AFQI
Release Date: 1998-09-15

Tracks:

Lumpy, Beanpole & Dirt
I'm Goin' Back To Mom And Dad
I'm Convicted
Brand New Hat
Hollywood Blues
Honey, I've Found A New Way/It's All The Same To Me
A Yid Ist Geboren Inz Oklahoma
Captain, Oh Captain
Jalopy
Doin' My Time
Cannonball Rag
Anna Lee
Bonus Track 1

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Since 1992's Delusions of Banjer, Bad Livers have been sowing a great, wild hybrid of bluegrass picking and punk abandon. Six years later, Industry and Thrift shows these boys working familiar fields on scorching bluegrassers such as "I'm Goin' Back to Mom and Dad." But they're harvesting some unexpected crops this time, too: the Cali country-rock choruses of "It's All the Same to Me," for example, and a Stevie Ray Vaughan-like blues-rock version of Flatt & Scruggs's "Doin' My Time," not to mention some twangy klezmer jams and silent-movie-era jazz--all of it held together by sheer quality and the general lack of anything resembling industry or thrift. That's how the sorry characters here came to have, or be, bad livers in the first place. --David Cantwell

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Bluegrass punk.......2003-12-11

Quite possibly the weirdest thing i have heard ever heard. i cant stop listening to it.

These guys are GREAT!.......1999-01-09

I own this disc, as well as Hogs on the Highway, and I really like them both. I thought they were pretty bizarre, and then I saw them in person. Now I listen to these discs all the time. These guys are definitely different and, instead of being defensive about it, they revel in it. Their live show is a hoot, and the discs are too.

Be prepared to be surprised if you buy this disc. There is a good chance you've never heard ANYTHING like the Bad Livers!

same 'ol tasty meal.......1998-12-02

The hard thing is determining whether it is subliminal jesus or just 'sumpin they playin' again. Truth is, eveything they do is good, no matter who's in the band. Compare anything on this with the badness of pop song-craftsmenship today. Real music is real music, and listening to this is way better then traveling to Austin. Maybe the 'fugees could sample this tuba to win the hearts of music critics? Don't you think people gotta play music, or at least write music to be considered musicians? Thanks, lumpy, beanpole, and dirt.

Bad Livers Mix Metaphors & Music For A Big Bluegrass Mush.......1998-11-12

On their new release, "Industry & Thrift," Bad Livers continue to confuse and confound. From the first song, Lumpy, Beanpole & Dirt (and later on with such trad-grass faves as Doin' My Time and Cannonball Rag), the listener might understandably conclude that Bad Livers have hit mainstream bluegrass. But ye do not be deceived! In fact, just when you think that Livers have lost their old edge in favor of a hillbilly hoe-down, they swing back with a dose of hard-core (well, as hardcore as you can get with a core or banjo, bass, guitar and tuba). The wildly changing sounds of "Industry & Thrift" will certainly limit their longevity on all but the most difficult college radio and likely find similar suffering in sales. Probably the worst offense is the Livers apparent out of control ego -- or label ineptitude -- that resulted in an appalling lack of information in the CD booklet (if you can call it that). One can clearly hear the contributions of other players, but judging from the notes it seems that no one else had anything to do with this disc other than the dynamic duo. I can't imagine that this lack of information will endear the Livers to other reviewers. Maybe that's the point--to have writers focus on the music and not personalities (other than their own, of course). If that's the case then "Industry & Thrift" really shines the spotlight on brilliant songwriter and instrumentalist Danny Barnes. His contributions really seem to carry the album and his other Liver, Mark Rubin, seems ultimately superfluous. The oddly melodic and nasally nascent compositions of Barnes reach new peaks with sublime highlights like Honey, I've Found A Brand New Way/It's All The Same To Me and Captain, Oh Captain. Bass and tuba blowhard Rubin once again scores with solid rhythm to Danny's craftwork. Throwing in a pitch for his pet project, Rubin injects some wildly out of place Okie-klezmer into the stew with the A Yid Ist Geboren Inz Oklahoma. Overall, "Industry & Thrift" is an interesting mix of styles and sounds and leaves you yearning, once again, for some good old Motorhead covers. Now that's bluegrass.

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