The following review sums up anything we might want to say about this release; just know that although the band released it themselves originally, we are giving it a proper re-release through Suburban Home with 6 bonus tracks:
Let's get this out of the way right up front. Two Cow Garage is everything I imagine Uncle Tupelo must have been back in the day. The UT comparison is inevitable because these kids play the same sort of punk country. The UT comparison is unavoidable because lead singer Micah Schnabel has a great voice that splits the difference between Farrar and Tweedy, but with a growl reminiscent of Steve Earle at his best.
We had Two Cow's CD laying about the GloNo HQ. When I ripped it onto my computer the day after that first show, the band came up immediately before Uncle Tupelo in the alphabetical track listing in my iTunes library. Is this too good to be true or what? I had thought the name might be the most glaringly wrong thing with the band. Now, even that notion was dispelled.
Listening to the album, Please Turn the Gas Back On, I heard songs that would be familiar to anyone by now, songs about growing up in a hick town in the middle of anywhere and being in love and getting hurt. We know the genre, it's not particularly complicated, is it? Hell, John Cougar played this shit before my pal Micah was born.
Yes, this sort of music makes sense when it touches raw nerves, when a performer causes us to believe in the words and what they represent. After all, this is really country music, even if it is all rocked up. Real, good country music isn't encumbered by pretense and sensibility. Or at least that's what I want to believe, at least as badly as I want to believe in Two Cow Garage. (from Glorious Noise, 2003)
Track Listing:
1. Wait
2. Youngstown, The City of
3. Forget You (try to)*
4. Been So Long
5. Farmtown
6. Found
7. River
8. Girl of My Dreams
9. Burn
10. All Sins Forgiven
11. Goodbye (alt.)
12. Greenhorne**
13. Big Enough**
14. Pick Me Up**
15. Swallow Your Pride**
16. How It Ends**
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