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Background

Alongside the band's usual punk style of music, there is a strong presence of

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-influenced

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on this album, perhaps even more heavily than on the band's previous album. The Swingin' Utters recorded '' Live in a Dive'' shortly after this album was released.

Reception

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gave it a four and a half stars out of five rating, with reviewer Jo-Ann Greene calling it "a stomping mix of rabid punk and pub-crunching singalongs" and "the best yet from the band".Akkerman, Olivia (2003)
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Track listing

All tracks written by Darius Koski except as noted. # "No Pariah" – 1:30 # "Glad" – 2:09 # "Hopeless Vows" – 1:48 # "Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones" (Johnny Bonnel, Koski) – 2:05 # "All That I Can Give" – 2:24 # "Sign in a Window" – 1:54 # "Dont Ask Why" – 2:12 # "Lampshade" – 2:56 # "Letters to Yourself" – 2:35 # "Heaven at Seventeen" – 1:43 # "Leaves of Fate" (Bonnel, Koski) – 1:57 # "If You Want Me To" (Koski, Spike Slawson) – 2:46 # "Elation" ( Goddard, Koski) – 1:40 # "Poor Me" (Aust Koski, Koski) – 1:44 # "My Closed Mind" – 1:23 # "Looking for Something to Follow" – 2:57 # "Shadows and Lies" – 1:57

Personnel

Johnny Bonnel Johnny "Peebucks" Bonnel (born August 7, 1967) is the lead singer and a songwriter of the punk rock band Swingin' Utters and the alternative punk rock band Filthy Thievin' Bastards. His new project is called Druglords of the Avenues. His nickna ...

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Spike Slawson Sean "Spike" Slawson (born April 9, 1970) is an American punk rock musician, a member of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin' Utters, Filthy Thievin' Bastards, Re-Volts, Uke-Hunt, and Los Nuevos Bajos. Early life Having grown up in Pittsb ...

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, bass on track #17, percussion)

References

External links

Swingin' Utters official discography
{{Authority control Swingin' Utters albums Fat Wreck Chords albums 2003 albums Folk punk albums