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• Artist: Hacienda Brothers
• Album: What’s Wrong With Right
• Label: Prpoer American
• Year of Release: 2006
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-11-25

The title track is just flat out the best honky tonk song of the last ten years, give or take whatever Brent Best or Wayne Hancock throw down. Chris Gafney and Dave Gonzalez second record is a world weary gem, full of the kind of boozy insights that are still genius even when sober. The soulful “Keep it Together” and a cover of Percy sledge’s “It Tears Me Up” wring the last bits of emotion and remind you that you are not alone in your worry. While there is a fair number of soul tunes here, the real meat is in the country tracks. “ Different Today” and “The Warning” are so raw as to be gruesome, while the Tex-Mex shuffle of “If Daddy don’t Sing Danny Boy Tonight” will break even the most beefy of hard hearts. This could have been released in 1965, or have been a Flatlanders demo. Timeless and true, like the light that shines through the shades onto your beer when you just want to be left alone, What’s Wrong with Right brings hope that arrives at the last minute, and hangs on.

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