Friday 15 April 2011

Great Cover #2 The Waco Brothers: Revolution Blues

In my opinion Revolution Blues from the 1974 album On The Beach may well be one of best songs Neil Young’s ever wrote. It’s defiantly his most sinister as it alludes to the Manson Family cult.
‘Well we live in a trailer at the edge of town, you never see us ‘cause we don’t come around, we got twenty five rifles just to keep the population down.’
In truth as good as the song is the band performance lumbers a bit.
That’s something that The Waco Brothers rectify on their beefed up revision of Revolution Blues. The band really attack it square on and with Jon Langford's vocals n the driving seat it clocks in over a minute less that the original.

DL The Waco Brothers: Revolution Blues mp3 Here