LESTER BANGS & THE DELINQUENTS "JOOK SAVAGES.." LP PUNK
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LP JACKET VG+++
LP M-/M-
1981 ISSUE
LIVE WIRE RECORDS
Lester Bangs recorded an album with the Austin, Texas based Punk group "The Delinquents" in 1980, entitled "Jook Savages on the Brazos". It was quoted that, "Lester's album with the Delinquents was the predecessor of so-called alternative-country bands such as Wilco and Son Volt".
The only album to be released while Lester Bangs was alive finds him working with the Texas-based Delinquents, who had a pretty hot guitar player by the name of Andy Fuertsch. It wasn't as though he was looking for a roots rock sound in working with the Delinquents, it was more that they were in Texas and outside of the incestuous New York post-punk scene that Bangs was so much a part of. The music contained within these grooves is very good, especially the bitterly funny "Life Ain't Worth Living (But Suicide Is a Waste of Time)," which, more than any of the other songs he wrote, gets to the heart of Bangs' worldview. His singing is a little thin and inexpressive, but never unlistenable, and the record as a whole has an engaging Richard Hell-influenced psycho blues feel to it.
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