Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones
Studio album by
Swingin' Utters
ReleasedFebruary 25, 2003
RecordedStout Recording, Oakland, California, April, May, June and August 2002
Genre
Length35:47
LabelFat Wreck Chords 648 (CD and LP)
ProducerThe Greedy Bros.
Swingin' Utters chronology
Swingin' Utters
(2000)		 Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, and Bones
(2003)		 Live in a Dive
(2004)

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

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
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Free Lance-Starfavorable

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

Additional musicians

References

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