Junior Brown\u2019s vocal on \u201cMy Wife Thinks You\u2019re Dead\u201d is goofy reassurance that he doesn\u2019t give a damn. He has that good ole boy thing down. Playful indifference to an affair. That alone makes the song fun, but Brown\u2019s guitar playing is delightful (even if his playing is as simple as Stevie Ray Vaughn or Jimi Hendrix gone country). The man has a guitar with two necks and the bottom one is a lap steel axe, so he had better play well. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Actually, I probably wouldn\u2019t have cared if Junior High <\/i>sucked. First, it\u2019s an EP. I certainly don\u2019t care if an EP sucks. Five songs. That\u2019s it. If all of them are horrible, I just think, \u201cWell, they weren\u2019t confident enough to put this on a real album,\u201d and tuck it away somewhere dark and guilty. Plus, I haven\u2019t listened to many EPs in the first place. Am I qualified to write a review on Junior High<\/i>? Legitimate question, but I won\u2019t answer it. Second, I paid $5 for the CD, which is \u201cSuck away for all I care\u201d in asshole consumer slang. Third, I don\u2019t mind owning a CD with songs titled \u201cMy Wife Thinks You\u2019re Dead\u201d and \u201cSugarfoot Rag,\u201d even if it is an abomination as a whole. <\/p>\n
And speaking of \u201cSugarfoot Rag,\u201d I would have been disappointed if the whole album played its game. It\u2019s not a bad song, but it is an instrumental meant to shed light on what Brown can do with the guitar. Yeah, you\u2019ll hear Vaughan and Hendrix stuff sprinkled throughout \u201cSugarfoot Rag\u201d (Brown gets obvious at the end when he hits a couple of opening chords from \u201cThe Wind Cries Mary\u201d), but you know you\u2019re listening to a different player. Alright, I like the song, but what am I supposed to say? If you don\u2019t care about guitar solos, it\u2019s garbage.<\/p>\n
\u201cHighway Patrol\u201d and \u201cThat\u2019s Easy For You To Say\u201d set the tone for the EP. \u201cHighway Patrol\u201d is an upbeat track with Brown singing funny lyrics as earnestly as possible (\u201cIf you break the law, you\u2019ll hear from me I know \/ I\u2019m working for the state \/ I\u2019m the highway patrol\u201d). I\u2019m also guessing that Brown\u2019s last-second impression of Johnny Cash\u2019s trademark bass vocal is for laughs. \u201cThat\u2019s Easy For You To Say\u201d is a serious relationship song where Brown\u2019s lap steel playing is forefront. Would I rather hear Brown\u2019s fun side all the time? Perhaps, but he\u2019s clearly not one-dimensional, and \u201cThat\u2019s Easy For You To Say\u201d has a great chorus: \u201cYou make it sound just like another lie \/ With all the meaning of a nursery rhyme \/ Try to say it from your heart this time \/ When you tell me \u2018I love you.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
Junior High <\/i>is a nice cache of songs. You get two funnies, two tearjerkers, and a tolerable session of instrumental masturbation. Maybe it\u2019s my favorite EP now, but who cares? You can\u2019t get burned here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":30022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8447],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-41652","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-junior-brown","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41652"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}