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INTERVIEW Magazine (October 2006 issue) Elephant Dancing By Greil Marcus THE WHO, THE WHAT, THE WOW AND THE WHY
6 THE PINE BOX BOYS "Murder ballads one after the other, and, not halfway through, enough to make you queasy. Especially the indelible little number The Beauty in Her Face, which goes as far into the mind of a killer as anyone needs to. You know how it s going to end before the first verse does, and you spend the rest of the song trying to make it come out differently." |
 | "The Pine Box Boys serve up a delicious, devilish brew of dark grass, coarse swampobilly and rugged, aching rootsy country that wanders through haunted alleys, dive bars, deserted mining towns on the wrong side of the tracks in your own home town. Bringing together a cut-loose jangle that occasionally waltzes through a taste of jazz, bluegrass and country folk, their album, "Arkansas Killing Time" sustains a cast of characters and moods while maintaining a distinctive personality throughout. Hitting at the heart of the rural existence, the Pine Box Boys are a must for any even partial fan of artists like Drive By Truckers and Bad Livers." -- CDBaby |
| "When Nick Cave put out his Murder Ballads album some years ago, the ad copy famously read "10 Songs That All End The Same Way." This points up the risk of the form--it's so strictly defined that if it's not done really well, it can get thin and tedious. Nick rose to the challenge, and so do San Francisco's Pine Box Boys, with an excellent collection of brilliantly written songs that manage just the right tone...serious enough to be convincing and a little scary, knowing enough to take wicked delight in the sinful proceedings. Of course it's not just about lyrics, and even though the band's musical chops have continued to grow since they recorded this CD, there's plenty of fine musicianship on display here. A lot of these songs work up a nasty Appalachian groove that'll have you tippin' whiskey and stompin' yer boots. To keep things interesting, a little southwestern/Latin melodic flair finds its way into a couple songs, and in the name of equal opportunity there's even one song where the woman gets to serve up bloody vengeance on her fella. What more could you ask for, other than the next helping?" -- Michael, on CDBaby |
| "I'm lucky enough to be a local so I've seen the lads more than once and can soak up the whole oddball experience. But their album stands up on it's own merits. Yes, the topics are a out of the mainstream. God bless them for it. Interesting lyrics played by top notch musicians. And hell, the album makes a great first date conversation starter....or ender." -- Vince, CDBaby |
| "Need more murder ballads in your life? If you're looking for macabre, sinister, foot-stompin', flat-pickin', fiddle-sawin', moonshine-fueled songs of betrayal, insanity, passion, stone-cold acts of killin', and the utmost conviction that "Yes, tonight my love must die a bloody death at my hands," then The Pine Box Boys are for you." -- Spiritualmonkey, Feb. 5th, 2006 @ 10:46 |
| "Blocks away, we arrived at a decidedly smaller bar with much better music. The band on stage was The Pine Box Boys, a decidedly cool, though somewhat sinister-seeming hillbilly band. Think Rednex, but darker and more traditionally oriented. They were impressive and the Rightwing was immediately impressed." -- The Virgin Prince, Thursday, Nov. 17 |
 | "The lead singer sounds like Garth Brooks on a psychotic tear; the stand-up bass thunders like its evil heart's been broken..." -- SF Weekly, October 26, 2005. |
| "Hilariously macabre... The Pine Box Boys are one funny, stompin' good time!" -- E. "DOC" SMITH |
| "If you consider yourself even slightly adventurous, why not send a big screw you to the major labels and buy this one? At the very least, this is the most admirable stab at a country concept album since Red Headed Stranger, and nearly every track reveals something new on repeated listens." -- Chris Manson at CD REVIEW on "Arkansas Killing Time" |
 | "The album's cumulative effect is that of a song cycle of country ballads composed to accompany a slasher film." -- Editor, East Bay Express. |
| "Together they make a unique hybrid of music best known as "dark grass, " an amalgam of blue grass, country and rock, crossing genre lines with an Irish lilt here and a Latino beat there." -- Larry Perovic |