Six years after this album is released to great acclaim (and after it lying around my apartment for a good long while) I suddenly recognize just how marvelous this is. There’s a vibe here. I don’t know exactly what it is, but some yamhead on Amazon.com wrote this: “The Pernice Brothers are to alt country what The Smiths were to punk.” I buy that, I guess. Anyway, the hype was justified. . .especially if it still sounds good this far after the fact.
