Music Review

Live From Robert's

Reviewed by Alanna Nash | May 03, 1996
EW's GRADE
A

Details Genre: Country

Named for a phone number in a Hee Haw sketch, BR5-49 are Nashville's brightest hope in the fight against manufactured country-pop. On their six-song debut Live From Robert's, recorded at Robert's Western World (boot shop by day, bar by night), this ''twang-core'' band salutes Bettie Page and The Andy Griffith Show. The ghosts of Johnny Horton and Hank Williams cheer. A

Originally posted May 03, 1996 Published in issue #325 May 03, 1996 Order article reprints

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