'Bourbon Vibes' starts off promisingly. The album cover depicts four dirty looking hillbillies from the deepest southern-most states of America (the fact that they're all wearing cowboy hats is a dead giveaway!).
Opening track 'Dirty Man (The Ballad Of Rick Rococco)' is exactly what you'd expect from this, a proper 'knees-up-ole-mother-brown-do-se-do yo'-partner- and-keep-away-from-your-cousin' kind of song which gets the legs jiggling in time to the drum beats.
But then it all goes wrong. Instead of more cracking country tunes, there follows a depressing series of mediocre, at best, rock ballads which will probably appear in a 'Nation's Favourite Driving Songs' type compilation sometime in the next five years- if they play their cards right anyway.
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A disappointing release, which will most likely appeal to real men- a.k.a men with white string vests, a can of cold beer in their hand and a tattoo of their mother on their arm. Gimmie back the hillbillies!
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