C. GIBBS AND THE CARDIA BROS.
The Pinkermen Set (Rubric Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Wonderfully varied country-pop album with great, sad guitar licks, cheesy organs and affected Southern accents. While the music on all of these tracks is great, the real treasure here is C. Gibbs' lyrics, which are brilliantly sarcastic in such a way that individual lines could sound touching and saccharine, but the songs taken as a whole are bitter as hell. Many songs here make tongue-in-cheek references to losing someone who was heavily into bondage - or perhaps just a well-accessorized cowgirl - either to death or just heavy wishing for it. Whatever the songs are actually about, they sure make the wide open plains in Texas sound like some kind of sexy place to hang out.

© 2003 - Holly Day