Dollar Store

From the best aspects of the insurgent country ghetto and the vaunted Chicago noise guitar scene comes Dollar Store. On their debut CD, Deano and the boys take bluegrass and country chord progressions and slather them with textures, volume, and loose, angular noise to make them thick and greasy in the finest rock and roll tradition. The songs are full of characters staggering through a world that has let them down; they are pounded down by work, abandoned by the world of mainstream music, and robbed of dignity by the government, and they play them like the stage is on fire. "Dollar Store stir up a rootsy bar-band boogie that occasionally drifts into downtrodden common-man balladry; if the Jayhawks and Wilco stayed up real late getting ripped on cheap wine and bashing out Gram Parsons songs, it would sound something like this." --Steve English, Splendid-zine