The Gourds, Bolsa de Agua - 57m 54s

Tracks & Durations

1. El paso	3:10
2. Jesus christ with signs following	4:06
3. Big santiago bust	1:42
4. Receipts & fevers	3:50
5. Pickles	3:01
6. O rings	3:09
7. Bugs	3:13
8. Waterbag	4:08
9. Hallelujah shine	3:36
10. Layin around the house	2:37
11. Meat off the bone	3:46
12. Flamenco cabaret	2:34
13. Turn my head around	4:21
14. Tearbox	2:19
15. High highs & low lows	9:35
16. ?	2:37

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Review

On Bolsa de Agua, more a backyard hootenanny than a meticulous studio creation, the Gourds threw a party where everyone got drunk and wrestled around in the dirt. Propelled by comfortably drawling, catchy alt-country and the band's loopy lyrics and smart-ass sensibility, Bolsa de Agua brings a crooked smile at every turn. --S. DudaTexas's multifaceted Gourds have not been well served by record companies, a fact that has made their hard-to-pigeonhole music often just plain hard to find. To christen their signing to the stable, stellar Sugar Hill label, they're spinning a new, twangier set, Bolsa de Agua (as well as reissuing their prior albums). Bolsa has all the Gourds' characteristic elements--guitarist Kevin Russell's barrel-chested vocals and cleanly strummed acoustic guitars; Jimmy Smith's tipsy vocals and thick, sometimes slappy bass; Keith Langford's thwacking drum punctuations; Claude Bernard's accordion (and more); and a host of here rootsily narrative, there freaked, lyrics. To wit: Smith singing woefully, with dramatic violin and accordion backing, "I drank so much coffee / Now my hair it sticks up like the startled squirrels." Even with such lines, though, the Gourds manage to balance (perfectly) the offhand humor of being Texans with small-town stories and musicians with a grasp and reach that connect in a way that defies alt-country stereotypes and blazes trails that only the Gourds will follow. --Andrew Bartlett

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Bolsa de Agua

Tracks: 16, Disk length: 57m 4s (-1m 10s)

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