Dog Days

Wow, I didn’t know I liked this kind of music so much. A hidden gem of an album!

This is the fucking summer album, another beautiful gem of the mid-90s alt-country boom. Often forgotten even within the alt-country scene, Blue Mountain embraced their southern culture half a decade before Southern Rock Opera, in a way that went against a lot of the ethos of alt-country at the time. This album slaps so damn hard and it makes me so damn mad it never got the respect it deserved. Just put on Blue Canoe and drive to lake, and tell me that doesn’t make you feel like you’ve achieved aesthetic perfection.