Now here’s a healthy, clean living thing. Two Dollar Bash – who are part Scottish it would seem – have released an album that trawls with utmost politeness those deep depths of translated Americana. “New Adventures” might well be the album’s title but its contents suggest old hands at the tiller.
Two Dollar Bash prove themselves confident and competent performers with well plucked guitars and banjo providing the authentic sonic signature of a band happy to draw on someone else’s past. It’s all nicely done, of course, but maybe that just isn’t enough anymore. Songs like “Same Old Lie” and “Blame It On Me” – that one was almost enough to make me search out my Smokey and The Bandit DVD – are earnestly performed and easy enough on the ear and yet I was left wondering if I had heard it all before.
Compared to the value you get with a band like Mad Staring Eyes, Two Dollar Bash sound a bit overpriced.