Gene Ween
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The Independent
Better Than: A somber singer-songwriter open mic night.An oddity amongst an already odd catalog, Ween's 1996 release, 12 Golden Country Greats (actually a 10-song record), is one of my favorite albums. Even for a drug-addled, practically unclassifiable duo known for their pop eccentricity, genre shifts, taboos, and satire, a rootsy, western-themed album recorded with esteemed Nashville studio musicians was a surprising and potentially alien