Bloodshot Records built its reputation on artists who refused to color inside the lines, and Dollar Store fit that ethos perfectly. This Chicago outfit channels the same restless energy that made the label a home for country-punk outliers, with ties to the Waco Brothers giving them a direct connection to the scene Jon Langford helped define. The Cher cover alone tells you everything about their sense of humor and their lack of fear. Plying choppy sonic waves between the best aspects of the roots rock ghetto, mid-80's Minneapolis punk and the vaunted Chicago noise guitar scene. There's even a startling cover of that long unheralded roots icon Cher ('Believe') Features members of the Waco Brothers "Dollar Store stir up a rootsy bar-band boogie that occasionally drifts into downtrodden common-man balladry; if the Jayhawks and Wilco stayed up real late getting ripped on cheap wine and bashing out Gram Parsons songs, it would sound something like this." - SPLENDID Tracklist 1. New Country 2. Around The Bend 3. Believe 4. Beyond Our Means 5. North Central Plain 6. Button Up 7. Explain Away 8. Enemy 9. Exit #9 10. Working Line 11. Amazing Disgrace 12. Little Autocrat UPC: 744302009827Label: Bloodshot RecordsRelease Date: 2.3.04Format: CD
