
You'd think with a blatant Johnny Cash-referencing name like Mud, Blood & Beer (" kickin' and a-gouging' in the mud and the blood and the beer " - "A Boy Named Sue"), not to mention the longhorn skull on the album cover, that this New York band would fall easily into the alt country area of musical definitions (which is basically what I spent 3 years in the late 90's listening to exclusively). For the most part they do fit that profile - there are plenty of two-steppin' drum beats, the kind of guitar playing that sounds like [...]