Music Review

12 Golden Country Greats (1996)

EW's GRADE
C-

Details Lead Performance: Ween; Genres: Country, Rock

Ween, Pennsylvania's most famous potheads, hired country producer Ben Vaughn and genuine Nashville studio musicians and got what they paid for: 10 slick country tunes musically indistinguishable from anything on, say, a David Lee Murphy album. 12 Golden Country Greats' lyrics, how-ever, are puerile novelties, notable more for their homophobia, misogyny, and racism than for anything funny. C-

Originally posted Jul 26, 1996 Published in issue #337 Jul 26, 1996 Order article reprints

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