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- Bolsa de Agua
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The Gourds
Released 2000

El Paso
03:08
874 plays

Hallelujah Shine
03:34
570 plays

Big Santiago Bust
01:40
456 plays

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- 1
- El Paso
- 03:08
- 874 plays

- 2
- Jesus Christ (With Signs Following)
- 04:04
- 425 plays

- 3
- Big Santiago Bust
- 01:40
- 456 plays

- 4
- Receipts and Fevers
- 03:47
- 390 plays

- 5
- Pickles
- 02:59
- 297 plays

- 6
- O Rings
- 03:07
- 307 plays

- 7
- Bugs
- 03:11
- 347 plays

- 8
- Waterbag
- 04:06
- 295 plays

- 9
- Hallelujah Shine
- 03:34
- 570 plays

- 10
- Layin Around the House
- 02:35
- 382 plays

- 11
- Meat off the Bone
- 03:44
- 402 plays

- 12
- Flamenco Cabaret
- 02:33
- 357 plays

- 13
- Turn My Head Around
- 04:20
- 336 plays

- 14
- Tearbox
- 02:18
- 314 plays

- 15
- High Highs and Low Lows
- 07:03
- 367 plays

album review

Only a few groups (The Silos, Tragically Hip, Los Lobos among them) have ever come close to capturing the true spirit of the Band. Many have tried, but most have fallen miserably flat. Bolsa de Agua is album number four for the Gourds, but with the recent addition of journeyman alt-country six-stringer Max Johnson, all the pieces are in place: players with several instruments in their expertise, a compassion for a wide variety of traditional American music forms, a carefree studio vibe, lyrics that even when they seem tossed off are pure poetry, and distinct voices that can take on many different personalities. Mixing bluegrass, honky tonk, gospel, and a passing strain of Dixieland or Appalachian dance music (and spicing it all up with unorthodox arrangements), the Gourds have created as original a template for Americana music as that group that called Woodstock home did with their first two albums, Music From Big Pink and The Band. Even traditional-sounding country tunes like "Meat off the Bone" and "O Rings" are more than just exercises in genre, since songwriters Johnston, Jimmy Smith, and Kev Russell write with a dust-bowl poetic determination and a wry sense of irony. A country-gospel-like "Jesus Christ (With Signs Following)" is, in fact, a story on just how little a difference faith can make in the bitter realities of life. ~ John Duffy, All Music Guide