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- Date Released: October 19, 2004
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Alt-Country
- Label: Shelterhouse / Redeye
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It's really a shame that the Bob Stinson edition of the Replacements never did much more than flirt with country music. If they had, the results would have sounded an awful lot like Two Cow Garage's The Wall Against Our Back, and that's intended as a compliment to both bands. Recorded in appropriately garage-like conditions by Slobberbone's Brent Best (who infuses the proceedings with the same ragged-but-right feel as his own band), the Columbus-based trio blasts out 13 songs that toy with grunge-era soft/LOUD dynamics at a thrashing pace. The relentless forward motion is broken once -- again, just like on a Replacements album -- by "Saturday Night," a solo acoustic ballad by singer Micah Schnabel that gives the otherwise Westerberg-hoarse singer a chance to be a bit more gentle to his vocal cords and the listener a chance to rest up a bit for the seething revved-up country two-step of "If This Is Home" and the flat-out punk fury of "Smell of Blood," which wouldn't sound out of place on a Hüsker Dü album. Cowpunk (as opposed to the more polite and rootsy alternative country) lives on in these grooves.
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| 01. |  |
My Concern |
2:58 |  |
| 02. | |
Make It Out Alive |
3:38 | |
| 03. | |
Burn In Hell |
5:01 | |
| 04. | |
135 |
3:53 | |
| 05. | |
Alphabet City |
2:28 | |
| 06. | |
Saturday Night |
2:52 | |
| 07. | |
If This Is Home |
2:17 | |
| 08. | |
Smell Of Blood |
2:46 | |
| 09. | |
Brand New July |
4:17 | |
| 10. | |
Good For Nothing |
2:45 | |
| 11. | |
Bethlehem |
4:43 | |
| 12. | |
Hillbilly |
3:12 | |
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The Wall Against Our Back |
4:17 | |
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Credits
- Joe Cripps - Percussion // Steve Fallone - Mastering // Brent Best - Guitar // Brent Best - Vocals (Background) // Brent Best - Producer // Brent Best - Mixing // Matt Pence - Guitar // Matt Pence - Engineer // Matt Pence - Mixing // Ward Williams - Pedal Steel // Scott Danbom - Piano // Two Cow Garage - Main Performer // Micah Schnabel - Guitar // Micah Schnabel - Vocals // Micah Schnabel - Group Member // Dustin Harigle - Drums // Dustin Harigle - Vocals // Dustin Harigle - Group Member // Chris Flint - Management
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