Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones

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Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones is the sixth full-length album by Californian punk rock band Swingin' Utters.

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Background

Alongside the band's usual punk style of music, there is a strong presence of Pogues-influenced Irish folk on this album, perhaps even more heavily than on the band's previous album. The Swingin' Utters recorded Live in a Dive shortly after this album was released.

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Reception

The Free Lance-Star gave the album a positive review, while Allmusic gave it a four and a half stars out of five rating, with reviewer Jo-Ann Greene calling it "a stomping mix of rabid punk and pub-crunching singalongs" and "the best yet from the band".

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Track listing

All tracks written by Darius Koski except as noted.

1. "No Pariah" - 1:30
2. "Glad" - 2:09
3. "Hopeless Vows" - 1:48
4. "Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones" (Johnny Bonnel, Koski) - 2:05
5. "All That I Can Give" - 2:24
6. "Sign in a Window" - 1:54
7. "Dont Ask Why" - 2:12
8. "Lampshade" - 2:56
9. "Letters to Yourself" - 2:35
10. "Heaven at Seventeen" - 1:43
11. "Leaves of Fate" (Bonnel, Koski) - 1:57
12. "If You Want Me To" (Koski, Spike Slawson) - 2:46
13. "Elation" (Goddard, Koski) - 1:40
14. "Poor Me" (Aust Koski, Koski) - 1:44
15. "My Closed Mind" - 1:23
16. "Looking for Something to Follow" - 2:57
17. "Shadows and Lies" - 1:57

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Personnel

• Johnny Bonnel (vocals)
• Darius Koski (guitar, vocals, accordion, piano, organ, violin, viola)
• Greg McEntee (drums)
• Spike Slawson (bass, vocals)

• Tom Brayton (percussion)
• mike busbee [sic] (vibraphone, bass on track #17, percussion)

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