Album Reviews

“The Original Cowboy” is a collection of demos of material that ended up being 2003’s “As The Eternal Cowboy”. What you get honestly doesn’t differ a helluva lot from the end result with the exception of some tracks being shuffled around. So at first sight this may seem like a somewhat irrelevant release. But after having heard this album a couple of times, I fell in love with how everything sounds that little bit grittier, dirtier and sloppier. It actually makes “The Original Cowboy” an even better album than “As The Eternal Cowboy” if you ask me. I’m just curious to hear how raw and gritty their upcoming Butch Vig-produced full-length will be…

People that are new to the band should pick this one up over “As The Eternal Cowboy” and diehard fans will want this new version as well so I guess Fat Wreck wins all around!