This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
If you think about it, the original folk singers — I’m talking way back in the ’20s and ’30s here — were also the original punks: Dirt-poor, uneducated outsiders, rebelling against the world with just a guitar, some angry words and plenty of fire in the belly.
Fast-forward to 1999 and the double-entendre handled Country Teasers, a British quartet of redneck balladeers who infuse their lo-fi folk blues with all the fear and loathing typically found in a classic murder ballad. Ragged and frayed as an overused noose, these sloppy backwoods dirges are peppered with provocative invective, delivered in vocals that vary from a beaten whimper to a miserable howl. Misanthropy has never sounded better — we mean it, man.
