Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones
Appearance
Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones | ||||
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Released | February 25, 2003 | |||
Recorded | Stout Recording, Oakland, California, April, May, June and August 2002 | |||
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Length | 35:47 | |||
Label | Fat Wreck Chords 648 (CD and LP) | |||
Producer | The Greedy Bros. | |||
Swingin' Utters chronology | ||||
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Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones is the sixth full-length album by American punk rock band Swingin' Utters.
Background
[edit]Alongside the band's usual punk style of music, there is a strong presence of Pogues-influenced Irish folk on this album, perhaps even more heavily than on the band's previous album. The Swingin' Utters recorded Live in a Dive shortly after this album was released.
Reception
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Free Lance-Star | favorable |
The Free Lance-Star gave the album a positive review, while Allmusic gave it a four and a half stars out of five rating, with reviewer Jo-Ann Greene calling it "a stomping mix of rabid punk and pub-crunching singalongs" and "the best yet from the band".[2][1]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks written by Darius Koski except as noted.
- "No Pariah" – 1:30
- "Glad" – 2:09
- "Hopeless Vows" – 1:48
- "Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones" (Johnny Bonnel, Koski) – 2:05
- "All That I Can Give" – 2:24
- "Sign in a Window" – 1:54
- "Dont Ask Why" – 2:12
- "Lampshade" – 2:56
- "Letters to Yourself" – 2:35
- "Heaven at Seventeen" – 1:43
- "Leaves of Fate" (Bonnel, Koski) – 1:57
- "If You Want Me To" (Koski, Spike Slawson) – 2:46
- "Elation" (Goddard, Koski) – 1:40
- "Poor Me" (Aust Koski, Koski) – 1:44
- "My Closed Mind" – 1:23
- "Looking for Something to Follow" – 2:57
- "Shadows and Lies" – 1:57
Personnel
[edit]- Johnny Bonnel (vocals)
- Darius Koski (guitar, vocals, accordion, piano, organ, violin, viola)
- Greg McEntee (drums)
- Spike Slawson (bass, vocals)
- Additional musicians
- Tom Brayton (percussion)
- mike busbee [sic] (vibraphone, bass on track #17, percussion)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Greene, Jo-Ann "Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones Review", Allmusic, retrieved September 30, 2012
- ^ a b Akkerman, Olivia (2003) "Diverse Music, lyrics mark Swingin' Utters", Free Lance-Star, April 24, 2003, p. 3, retrieved September 30, 2012