Songs of Desperation
Those Poor Bastards are the best Gothic Country I have heard yet to this day. --Hank Williams IIIEven in a crisp digital format, the new Songs of Desperation sounds as if Harry Smith dug it out of some trunk in a long-abandoned Mississippi shack that was once shared by The Cramps, Nick Cave, and the Louvin Brothers. The miserable, primitive duo carries on as if the graveyard is but a step ahead, the devil a step behind, and there's hell to pay in every direction. --The OnionWyatt and the boys have dished up one hot serving of backwoods Gothicism for all you little ladies and gents. --Finding Datura Report