Speaking Good American

Country Music Gas Station

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Roots Rock – Pittsburgh, PA



"Country Music Gas Station only thinks it's playing country, while unwittingly pulling off something much more bombastic," writes Aaron Jentzen in The Pittsburgh City Paper. "Think a spastic version of Neil Young and Crazy Horse; sludgy but ferocious. A mix of irony and amped up bile."

Drawing upon the storytelling traditions of country music, Country Music Gas Station plays loud and fast rock ’n’ roll with biting humor and an anarchic sensibility. The songs are smart, carried by drunken harmonies and phrases that turn on a dime, while their live performances are marked by a lot of sweat, a little blood, and an occasional busted guitar.



Formed in Pittsburgh in 2005, Country Music Gas Station sings full-throated songs of a world populated by blow-addled, incarcerated rock stars; not-quite-retired groupie mother-in-laws; and sexually frustrated Catholic school teens. Using humor (and more than a little empathy), Country Music Gas Station shines a light on these characters’ lives - and maybe finds a little redemption along the way. With a bruising live show and half-true songs of love and excess, Country Music Gas Station is working to find the tattered edges of roots rock. Whether they succeed, Country Music Gas Station “packs a hell of a punch.”



CARS ARE SLIDING through red lights on snow-covered East Carson Street as the first band hits the tiny Lava Lounge stage. Inside, only a handful have braved the weather advisory. Despite the small crowd, the angry young men onstage are having way too much of something. In jeans and a conservative coif, the singer brutalizes an old guitar while belting out "Try to save your soul . if you still got one!" The band rattles to a stop briefly before launching into an almost hardcore version of Johnny Cash's "Cocaine Blues."



-Pittsburgh City Paper

2/16/06



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