Minor Enough

Minor Enough Artist: Wrinkle Neck Mules
Label: The Orchard
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 803680323526
EAN: 0803680323526
ASIN: B0001AW0DE


Release Date: 2004-01-13

Minor Enough


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Tracks:

  1. No Consolation
  2. Minor Enough
  3. Failure of Liver
  4. Whiskey Jars
  5. Sunday Special
  6. Discarded
  7. Here But Missing
  8. Big Dipper
  9. 17 Miles of Bourbon
  10. Pale Colored Hue
  11. Wandering Valley Prelude
  12. Head of Steam
  13. Gold Dust Twin

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Album Description

The Wrinkle Neck Mules debut, Minor Enough, sows the roots of rock, bluegrass and country into a bumper crop of Americana. The Richmond, Virginia quartet (plus or minus one or two) strike alternately with desperate rockers and fast picking grassers and then ice the wounds with humid back porch twang. The lyrical themes are as distinct --touching on unbroken horses, lost love, sterno abuse, whiskey factory explosions and other general nonsense. Throughout, a common thread of strong harmonies, clever lyrics and rock-solid instrumentation holds Minor Enough together. Get behind the mules and plow.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars something i missed........2007-01-16

here's a pleasant surprise that i missed when it was 1st out. a fantastic alt-country album, filled with great hooks and all the other trappings that make this genre so enjoyable. highly recommended by me, for whatever that's worth?

5 out of 5 stars best alt country band going.......2006-06-03

wow. gotta love those bands who have two distinct songwriters (farrar/tweedy, lennon/mccartney, etc). all very smart, chase writes in a classic country style (failure of liver, pale colored hue are exceptional) while andy gets the banjos and mandolins rolling with his down home blue grass stylings ("he had a hair cut like martin van buren" is the memorable opening line to the vic chesnutt-like whiskey jars, head of steam is a sad song about a mining disaster). mason brent fills it all in with tasteful guitars. smart lyrics, fantastic instrumentalists. as good as the second cd, pull the brake (very highly recommended as well), is i keep coming back to this gem. spread the mule.

5 out of 5 stars Better things to come..........2006-03-29

Amazon has not yet made "Pull The Brake" available (what's up with that?), WNM's new release (March 2006). These guys have stepped up and absolutely nailed their follow-up to Minor Enough. No one hit wonders here, these guys excel. Now if I can just get them to tour out West.....

5 out of 5 stars Hell, yeah!.......2005-08-27

These guy's are one hell of a Hillbilly/Alt-country outfit. Gritty, talented, and honest music that you'd swear came from the hills, but this isn't an "ol' timey" band; they kick ass too with a roots rock element. The Mules like to sing of makin' booze, & drinking it; plenty of it. There's only a handful of great character bands left out there in the "no depression" genre, & this is certainly one of 'em.

5 out of 5 stars Los Mules Rock.......2004-09-01

This is my first review this year and I would like to state now that these guys have set a really high standard for the rest to follow! There are thirteen tracks on the album and not a dud amongst them. The whole thing kicks of with No Consolation a cracking country rock number.What follows then is a mixture of bluegrass, alt.country and a kind of country garage style!
This is a five piece band hailing from between Richmond and Charlottesville Virginia.All the songs are written by either Chase Heard or Andy Stepanian who are the two main vocalists.

Right , back to the album. Quite a few of the tracks are drink related Failure Of Liver and 17 Seventeen Miles Of Bourbon to name but two.But the pick of the bunch for me are the three closing tracks Wandering Valley Prelude which segues seamlessly into the fantastically dark and wondrous Head Of Steam. The whole thing comes to a close with Gold Dust Twin with a moody synthesised intro ,quirky effects sitting happily along side hard driven electric guitars ,brilliant!

The Mules are as comfortable playing bluegrass as they are full blown alt. Country rock. To compare the Mules with others is difficult because they have a unique style of their own but I could hear traces Dillards, Jayhawks, Willard Grant and even a touch of Poco in this record.I have listened to a lot of alt. Country over the last year and I would be hard pushed to find a better album than this.I think the Mules are touring here in the summer and personally I can't wait. In the meantime I'll just have to wear out the album.
THESE MULES KICK ASS!!!
Yours in all that is good about music

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