Search - Supersuckers :: Live at the Tractor Tavern

If your lone experience with The Supersuckers is as a guitar-posing, riff-wielding, cowboy hat-clad garage band, you?ll find this ultra-rare transformation to nightclub country band as surprising as it is intoxicating. Recorded live in their hometown and retracing the sketches of their 1997 countrified album Must?ve Been High, the band--led by animated vocalist Eddie Spaghetti--scrounges through its decade-plus catalog, turning 100 mph originals like "Creepy Jackalope Eye" and "Born With a Tail" into whittled down, off-the-cuff slices of Nashville twang. Spaghetti?s whiskey-soothed pipes strike a balance, slithering between the guitar-and-harmonica interplay of Dan "Thunder" Bolton and guest Dave Lipkind, who transform "Doublewide" into line-dancer's bliss and make "Sail On" ripe for a Glen Campbell comeback. After the rambunctious Tractor audience take backing vocal honors on "Killer Weed" (from Spaghetti?s solo record Sauce), the ?Suckers close out the night with a hard-core honky-tonk version of Buck Owens' "Alabama, Louisiana or Maybe Tennessee"--the closest to that lone experience that you?re gonna get. - Scott Holter