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| Songs of Desperation | 
 enlarge | Artist: Those Poor Bastards
Label: GraveWax Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.99
Buy New: $8.97
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 105998
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 634479195846
EAN: 0634479195846
ASIN: B000CRQYWE
Release Date: December 19, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | This is Desperation | | • | With Hell So Near | | • | They Don't Make Folks Like They Used To | | • | Shadows Fall | | • | Drunk With Fear | | • | Deep in the Mud | | • | My Last Doller | | • | A Bone to Pick | | • | Among the Pines | | • | Death Ain't You Got No Shame? | | • | Drown in the River |
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Product Description
Sounding like they were recorded in the 1930s on broken equipment in a desolate region of southern Mississippi, Those Poor Bastards evoke the kind of heart-wrenching feelings of misery and loneliness you'd hope to hear on an album called Songs of Desperation. Unrelentingly slow and scratchy, this true old-time Gothic country draws more influence from the likes of Tom Waits and Nick Cave than Johnny Cash. The inky concoction of organ, banjo, and guitar on Songs of Desperation is the background music for themes of sold souls, empty lives, and certain death, but the album is still not without an element of black humour. If you find rockabilly and psychobilly's treatment of the genre too cartoonish and trivial, Those Poor Bastards offers the polar opposite you've been looking for. Rue Morgue Magazine
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Lonesome and the Minister are at it again September 12, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This album is an instant Hellbilly classic. Lonesome has no patience for BS and howls his damnation for the unbelievers of gothic country. Not since Johnny Cash has there been a country music personality with the magnetism to change the industry. Stand out tracks include "Hell So Near" "Shadows Fall" "Drunk with Fear" "My Last Dollar" and the somnambulistic masterpiece "Drown in the River." Lonesome evokes bleak faulknerian tragedies with a vicious sense of humor. I highly recommend Those Poor [..] to all discontented Nick Cave fans.
1930's death country April 12, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a slick, overproduced recording then you're missing the whole point. These songs are meant to reclaim the true country roots of the 1930's style murder ballads and weepers. Just read the product review and you'll get a good sense of what this album sounds like. You need not be "duped" or "burned." Just listen to the clips. This isn't music meant for the radio or to make you feel good. It's true country that evokes an overwhelming sense of loneliness and misery.
What's it all about? May 22, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
You might as well ask and the answer is hidden inside your inner depths, depths you didn't even know that you had.
A friend of mine made me a copy of this CD and I listened to it for a laugh. Was it funny? Yes, in a twisted sort of way. Was it vacuous? Hell, No. It was profound all the way. Was it meaningless? Yes, as meaningless as life itself.
People ramble through their lives trying to give it a `meaning' by banishing sadness and accentuating happiness and in the process are alienated of most of their own lives.
It is all life, in its pain, desperation, sadness, joy, ugliness, beauty, darkness and light, embrace it and be grateful for it is all what you have.
If you want to get off the banal sunshine train, then listen to those poor [...] telling you how.
At any rate, I liked it enough to buy my own copy.
 Poorly Executed Mishmash August 23, 2007
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
This sounds like Lux Interior and Lou Barlow hooked up with the idea of ripping off Nick Cave, but found themselves writing lyrics that were really crappy hacks of his ideas. Not to belabor the point - where Barlow's low-fi production often sounds ingenious and Cave's lyrics are brilliant examples of Deep South and Appalachian gothic mythology, this sounds hackneyed and contrived on both counts. For my money, if you want something like this, anything by 16 Horsepower or Woven Hand (even with the bible beating message) will do you much better.
 Bad News April 11, 2007
1 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is one bad piece of work - I felt duped by the first review and then felt burned the first time I attempted to listen to this poorly created, poorly recorded CD. Stay away!These guys have nothing to say....
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