Track Listing
1. (It's a Mighty Thin Line) Between Love and Hate
2. I Still Can't Believe You're Gone
3. Mystery
4. I Don't Believe in You
5. Papa Was a Rodeo
6. Easy Loving
7. Wild Mountain Berries
8. Sudden Stop
9. Crackers Rule
10. Gone
11. Whispering Pines
| Details | | Playing Time: | 39 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Ana Egge, Edith Frost, John Wesley Harding, Jon Langford, Robbie Fulks, Steve Goulding | | Producer: | Jon Langford | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
& The Pine Valley Cosmonauts.
Personnel includes: Kelly Hogan (vocals); Jon Langford, Andy Hopkins (vocals, guitar); Edith Frost (vocals); Celine (guitar, mandolin, fiddle); Jon Rauhouse (pedal steel guitar); Tom Ray (acoustic & electric basses); Steve Goulding (drums); Robbie Fulks, Ana Egge, John Wesley Harding (background vocals).
Recorded at King Size Sounds Labs, Chicago, Illinois in 1999.
Personnel: Ana Ehhe, Edith Frost, Minke Geier (vocals); Celine (guitar, mandolin, fiddle); Jon Langford, Andy Hopkins (guitar); Barclay McKay (piano, organ); Steve Goulding (snare drum).
Recording information: King Size Labs, Chicago, IL.
Photographers: Paul Natkin; Neko Case.
Singer Kelly Hogan has been in the bands The Jody Grind and the Rock*A*Teens, and has sung with John Wesley Harding and The Mekons. This, her second solo album (her first was 1996's WHISTLE THAT ONLY DOGS CAN HEAR), is a terrific amalgam of country and late-'60s Southern R&B and gospel. Hogan's voice is a warm, full-bodied mix of Dusty Springfield and Tammy Wynette, soulfully committed and straightforward.
The program consists of well-chosen covers and Hogan originals--highlights include Johnny Paycheck's honky-tonk "(It's A Mighty Thin Line) Between Love And Hate," Stephen Merrit's eerie Lee Hazlewood-like "Papa Was A Rodeo," and a truly affecting version of The Band's "Whispering Pines." The musicians--including members of the Waco Brothers--are as on-the-money as the Muscle Shoals posse that backed Dusty and Aretha. BENEATH THE COUNTRY UNDERDOG is 2000's answer to 1969's DUSTY IN MEMPHIS and FROM ELVIS IN MEMPHIS.
Editorial Reviews
7 out of 10 - ...Like the jukebox in a cool alt-country bar....it grips your arm and says: That's why they 'put' that tune on the jukebox...
Spin (06/01/2000)
...[Her] alluring, barroom-ready vocals recall classic country-rock chanteuses like Wanda Jackson and Patsy Cline, and she covers a diverse roster of tunes....The strongest of which is the roadhouse ballad 'Crackers Rule'.
Dirty Linen (06/01/2000)
...Has the country-soul inclinations of DUSTY IN MEMPHIS, and the lo-fi aesthetic shared by punk and early Sun Studios recordings....[The band] provide a twangy backdrop for Hogan's voice, a sweet, powerful belt tinged with melancholy that grows fluttery in quieter moments...
CMJ (05/01/2000)
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