Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones

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

Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones
Studio album by Swingin' Utters
Released	February 25, 2003
Recorded	Stout Recording, Oakland, California, April, May, June and August 2002
Genre	Punk rock, folk punk, folk rock
Length	35:47
Label	Fat Wreck Chords 648 (CD and LP)
Producer	The Greedy Bros.
Swingin' Utters chronology
Swingin' Utters (2000) Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones (2003) Live in a Dive (2004)

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.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Free Lance-Star	favorable

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".[2][1]

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

Personnel

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

Additional musicians

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

References

1. Greene, Jo-Ann "Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones Review", Allmusic, retrieved September 30, 2012
2. Akkerman, Olivia (2003) "Diverse Music, lyrics mark Swingin' Utters", Free Lance-Star, April 24, 2003, p. 3, retrieved September 30, 2012

External links

• Swingin' Utters official discography