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Free Music Review: Portrait of the Great Band as Young Men
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"Reckoning" is somewhat like "New Adventures" in that it is essentially an album of the road, of life on the move for a touring rock/folk band. Most of the songs are impressionistic sketches of the life the Boys from Athens were living at the time, piling into the back of their ratty boat of a station wagon and touring the south, playing pizza joints in order to pay for their next meal, working with their friends and school mates through the confusion of young adulthood in the early '80s. Stopping in on occasion to sleep in the run-down, abandoned old red church in Athens, GA that was their home at the time.

So you have chronicles of the road like ""Little America", love letters to lost and/or departed friends and lovers or to disagreeable family members ("So. Central", "Time After Time" and "Letter Never Sent") and goofs on their friends ("(Don't Go Back to) Rockville", which was a joke on their manager Bertis Downs's southernness -- per Peter Buck, "early thrash became country for 'reckoning' as a joke on Bertis").

In many respects, this is their most intimate and personal album. Here you see the young, precocious band discovering their capabilities -- gifts which would go on to yield one of the finest careers in 20th century music, vibrant and passionate still and now, going into their thrid decade, which begins in April 2000.

All of which is prefigured in that stunningly stellar, soul-invigorating song, "So Central Rain." Reckon I'll give it another spin right now. ...

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