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Speaking In Cursive

Two Cow Garage

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You Should Love This Band

This is the hardest working band in rock, folks, bar none. The hardest playing, hardest driving, hardest singing f'ers on the road today. Micah's vocals are as shredded as ever (he'll be lucky to be able to speak by age 50) and the band is in great form. There are more melodies than ever... these would be pop songs if the guitars were turned down a bunch of decibels and if the singers were autotuned and glossy. Thank God they're not. Another great record from the boys. Let's hope they get even half the recognition they deserve this go round.

Hitting Their Stride

Huge fan. Saw them on their last swing through Chicago a couple of weeks ago and had a blast. Only wish they'd played as long as Drag the River. Stronger songs this time around, raw but not ragged, honest lyrics -- these guys will be around for a while with a strong effort like this. Headlining can' t be far off.

Gravel voiced punk meets Americana

If cowpunk had steeped somewhere less urbane than Los Angeles, and if its progenitors had brought along the raw amperage of their punk backgrounds, it might have sounded more like this Columbus, Ohio band. Vocalist/songwriter Micah Schnabel sings in a hoarse gargle that’s several steps past “raspy” or “roughhewn,” and his self-reflective lyrics are backed alternately by hard-charging electric rock and acoustic country-folk. He’s a cynical sort, mocking his powers as a musician with the opener’s lyric, “So if it lights you up, and if it turns you on / I will sing to you all your favorite songs.” An ambivalence surfaces in the relationship of “Skinny Legged Girl,” with a love letter in one hand, a poison pen in the other, and his ambivalence extends to music itself, compelled to keep writing, but feeling “it was arrogant to think from the start, you were the only backyard Dylan with a folksinger’s heart.” Schnabel’s gravelly delivery is more Tom Waits than Bob Dylan, and a few of the songs, such as “Glass City,” offer the rising tide of an E Street Band epic. The band’s Americana influences are heard in the jangly rocker “Wooden Teeth,” the emotional ballad “Not Your Friends,” the twangy “Swallowed by the Sea” (with bassist Shane Sweeney providing the low lead vocal), and the exceptional acoustic autobiography “Swingset Assassin.” In addition to Waits and Springsteen, the Replacements and Uncle Tupelo provide obvious antecedents; less obvious are Big Star, the Goo Goo Dolls and even Bryan Adams, and contemporaries like Drag the River and the Drive By Truckers. In the end, Schnabel’s voice is too unique for such simple comparisons, his lyrics too intimately autobiographical, and the band’s combination of fiery punk rock and earthy Americana quite unlike any one of their forerunners. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2008 hyperbolium dot com]

Biography

Formed: September, 2001 in Columbus, OH

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '00s

A fierce and edgy alt-country band from Columbus, OH, Two Cow Garage takes the twangy melodies of vintage country music and fuses them with a muscular, amped-up attack that recalls Nirvana or Dinosaur Jr. as much as the Jayhawks or Blue Rodeo. Two Cow Garage was formed in the fall of 2001 by guitarist and singer Micah Schnabel, who was born and raised in the rural Midwestern community of Bucyrus, OH. Weaned on vintage country, Schnabel didn't care much for the mainstream rock that dominated radio,...
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