Nine Slices Of My Mid-Life Crisis

1. Where Does Love Go?

2. Future Mrs. Dave

3. West Side Wind

4. I Love You, Baby (And I Hate Myself)

5. Only Star

6. Long Day’s Journey

7. Table For One

8. Face Of The Earth

9. F.M.D. R.I.P.

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist
Dave Herndon is an itinerant journalist who's been knocking around New York for decades. Most of the songs on "Nine Slices of My Midlife Crisis" grew like fungus on the walls of Dave's Cave, an undisclosed location that over the years provided several hundred bednights for touring Mekons and Waco Brothers; Dave was always a dutiful Mekoncierge. Someplace along in the early '90s, Lonesome Bob taught Dave the rudiments ("Table for One" is the strange fruit of one of the Loner's weekly homework assignments), and the debt of influence is obvious: name another twanger who talks about couples therapy. So it's largely Bob's fault. But mainly it's Jon Langford's. Every so often when the circus was in town, Dave would scrape a new tune off the walls, and one day Jonboy said something deep and thought out like, "We ought to record this ****." So over the course of a few sessions in Chicago in 2002-3, Dave and Jon recorded the basic tracks, and then the Waco Brothers each added their own voices: Deano's and Durante's guitars took things in a Southern rock direction; Alan Daughty set some sort of record by putting down his bass parts in one two-hour blurt; Tracey "Future" Dear chirped like an insane chicken; and the drumming duties were shared by the Wacos' Chicago-New York tag team of Joe Camarillo and Steve Goulding. Dave asked Jon to find a Charlie Rich piano for "Only Star," and Barcley McKay delivered it. Sally Timms broke the gender barrier by dropping in and chirping a few lines to close out "Face of the Earth."

Throw some cave songs into the Waco-izer and this is what you get: a tragicomic Battle Cry of the Lonely Guy, who wants to know where love goes when it's gone, and at some point pokes his head out of the cave long enough to see that there's a path that leads into the morning light.

"This turned out better than anybody expected it to," said engineer extraordinaire Ken Sluiter. Maybe that's because there were no expectations. But perhaps it was la Timms who put it best: "What I like about your record is that it doesn't sound like anybody else," she told Dave. "It's singular. In twenty years somebody's going to find it and say, 'What the **** was this guy on about?' "

Product Description
Itinerant journalist and long-time Mekons associate Dave Herndon records his Lonesome Bob-influenced alt-country tunes backed by the infamous Waco Brothers and produced by Jon Langford of the Mekons. Features original Jon Langford cover art.

Tracks:

Where Does Love Go?
Future Mrs. Dave
West Side Wind
I Love You, Baby (And I Hate Myself)
Only Star
Long Days Journey
Table For One
Face Of The Earth
F.M.D. R.I.P.

Album Description

Itinerant journalist and long-time Mekons associate Dave Herndon records his Lonesome Bob-influenced alt-country tunes backed by the infamous Waco Brothers and produced by Jon Langford of the Mekons. Features original Jon Langford cover art.

Customer Reviews:

Uncle Dave searches for the perfect woman.......2004-05-04

I heard the Waco Brothers a few years ago on college radio in RI and got some of their CDs from the Bloodshot site and really liked them BUT this record blows my freakin' lid off. They've teamed up with Uncle Dave, some dude they used to hang out with in DC back in the day and he's come up with all these sensitive wordy country ballads and neanderthal rock anthems about his mid-life crisis. Hilarious stuff. He dreams up a fantasy woman for his future Uncle Dave wife and by the end of the album realizes she has to be killed before he can be free or happy or both. But it's OK 'cos she's not real, I geuss. The Wacos never sounded better and the rocking never stops. Uncle Dave has one of those weird non-singer story-teller voices that creeps up on you and gets in your skull! Perfect listening for unemployable single drunks staring down the barrel at 50... Where Does Love Go When It's Gone could be a hit for the Mavericks or Dwight.

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