Musings of a Punk Rock Father

Link: http://8tracks.com/newbombdisaster/dean-s-mix

I just made a mix CD for a friend of mine.  His taste leans toward country, and mine toward rock n roll and punk rock.  I love how so many punk bands and rock n roll bands take their cues from early blues and country.

Listen to the Gun Club's first album, "Fire of Love," and tell me you don't hear blues and country wrapped up in their punk rock sound.  Social Distortion always sounded like the owed a lot to Hank Williams, and Mike Ness made that clear with his "Under the Influences" album of country covers.

Here I put together a collection of rock n roll, punk and rockabilly bands that I think a country fan might enjoy.  You can listen either by clicking on the link above or on the player in my sidebar.  The last song is kind of a bonus track for my friend, for reasons he will understand.

Livin' For the City    Dirtbombs    Ultraglide in Black    3:11
War on War    Wilco    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot    3:51
Preaching The Blues    Gun Club    Fire of Love    4:01
Chickamauga    Uncle Tupelo    89/93: An Anthology    3:44
Last Dance    Mekons    Fear And Whiskey    3:15
I Don't Want To Know    This Train    Mimes Of The Old West    4:51
Bolan's Crash    New Bomb Turks    At Rope's End    2:47
Waves of Grain    Two Gallants    What the Toll Tells    9:36
Goin' Back to Tucson    Supersuckers    Evil Powers of Rock and Roll    2:22
Rowboat    Beck    Stereopathetic Soulmanure    3:47
Jack The Ripper    Link Wray & The Wraymen    Mr. Guitar (Disc 1)    2:23
Left On    The Sea and Cake    Everybody    4:56
Civilian Ways    Rancid    Let The Dominoes Fall    4:13
Don't Come Looking For Me Now    Compulsive Gamblers    Bluff City    3:50
Modern Times    Black Keys, The    Magic Potion    4:24
Bridge To The 21st Century    Gas Huffer    Just Beautiful Music    2:28
Ten Years    Quadrajets    If The Good Lord's Willin' And The Creek Don't Rise    3:20
Banker and a Liar    Reigning Sound    Love and Curses    2:38

Ball And Chain    Social Distortion    Social Distortion    5:46

BONUS TRACK