{"id":1635,"date":"2013-05-19T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2013-05-19T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T19:41:10","slug":"the-poor-geezers-all-4-one-best-of-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/the-poor-geezers-all-4-one-best-of-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poor Geezers – All 4 One – Best Of (review 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheI snagged this to review because it was labeled something along the lines of folksy\/punk or something like that. I was\u00a0really surprised when I put on my headphones and the music started coming out. I didn\u2019t really know what to expect,\u00a0but this is a straight up rugged, DIY, acoustic based music with attitude and ethics. The first thing that came to mind\u00a0was a stripped down Billy Bragg, or someone like John Wesley Harding. From the press release, the core players are\u00a0\u201cDean Riches who is a multi-talented\u00a0guitarist, drummer, singer, songwriter, harmonica player who lost his front teeth\u00a0in a Meteors mosh pit, and Eagle Spits who is a poet, croaker activist who loves The Clash and Blind Willie\u00a0Johnson.\u201d This album is basically a \u201cbest of\u201d compilation from their previous four records. It really is a great album\u00a0that has poetry tracks mixed in with bluesy, acoustic, stripped down songs about religion, Christ, politics and social\u00a0oppression. There is a definite brash attitude inside these songs, a \u201ctell it like it is\u201d attitude that communicates their\u00a0truth and belief. This is a great record, get it and try something outside of the box for a change. These guys have a\u00a0definite Joe Strummer flavor, one of those \u201changing on to hear the next line\u201d type deals. Great stuff!<\/p>\n[2013\u00a0Thumper Punk\/Raven Faith | Purchase:\u00a0thumperpunk.com\/<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I snagged this to review because it was labeled something along the lines of folksy\/punk or something like that. I was\u00a0really surprised when I put on my headphones and the music started coming out. I didn\u2019t really know what to … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,331],"tags":[338,232],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-review","category-september-2013","tag-the-poor-geezers","tag-thumper-punk-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}