Blood & Mood
Released: Feb 22, 2000
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Released: Feb 22, 2000
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Never a band to be comfortable in a single category, on Blood & Mood the Bad Livers are even more perverse than usual -- any illusions of bluegrass traditionalism that might have remained from...
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Industry and Thrift
Released: Sep 15, 1998
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Released: Sep 15, 1998
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Bluegrass with attitude. A very weird attitude, in fact. It isn't too difficult to imagine Bad Livers communing with Sugar Hill Records' other satirical cowboys, the Austin Lounge Lizards (with...
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Hogs on the Highway
Released: Feb 18, 1997
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Released: Feb 18, 1997
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Perhaps it's appropriate that the Bad Livers scaled back their punk influences and played up their traditional bluegrass roots when they moved to Sugar Hill Records for Hogs on the Highway. After...
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Dust on the Bible
Released: Aug 31, 1994
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Released: Aug 31, 1994
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Originally available exclusively on cassette at Bad Livers live shows, this collection of 11 deeply traditional old-timey and bluegrass gospel songs shows a reverential side to the band's usually...
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Lust for Life
Released: 1991
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Released: 1991
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If Iggy Pop had not been a product of the trailer parks of southeast Michigan, but had instead been raised by the pickin'-and-grinnin' psychopaths of Deliverance, he would have recorded his "Lust...
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The Ridgetop Sessions
Released: 1998
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Released: 1998
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Bad Livers started as a fairly straight, although quite progressive and somewhat irreverent, bluegrass band. Over the course of six albums, they got progressively more experimental, alienating many...
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Horses in the Mines
Released: 1994
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Released: 1994
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For their second album, the Bad Livers have turned in another fine batch of tunes, but this time they've traded the crisp Paul Leary production of the first album for a slightly more murky mix,...
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Delusions of Banjer
Released: 1992
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Released: 1992
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Upon first listen, the Bad Livers' debut recording sounds like a good, old-timey bluegrass album, but by the time the tuba enters on the third track, you begin to realize that this is not your...
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