Antsy McClain - EU Jacksonville 5/31/07

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trailercana

by erin thursby
scopes1925@msn.com

Artist:
Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours

Title:
Trailercana

Release Date:
05.08.07

Label:
DPR Records

      If you listen to Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours, the first question you might ask is: how seriously should I take this? In Trailercana the group walks a fine line between poking fun at the trailer park lifestyle and paying homage to it. They definitely use country music conventions to their advantage, twisting them enough to make things interesting. Even if you aren’t a fan a country music, there are going to be at least a few songs that you’ll have fun listening to.

      The first two tracks, ‘Living in Aluminum’ and ‘The Devil Gets More Credit Than He Deserves,’ are some of the more conventional tracks. Things really get cooking with track 3, ‘Joan of Arkansas,’ but the real fun starts with ‘DysFUNKtional.’ According to the liner notes, the song was inspired by “a girl who’s more fun when she’s off her meds.” With lines like: “There’s something bad wrong with her brain/ But she can sure throw a great toga party,” you start to get into the trailer park groove. The next song is just as much fun, and something most people can relate to. If you’ve ever been cut off in traffic by a car sporting a Jesus fish, you may have experienced some of the emotions in ‘I Was Just Flipped Off by a Silver Haired old Lady with a Honk If You Love Jesus Sticker on the Bumper of Her Car.’ The country-southern-corruption-and-mystery song, ‘Dora’s Dark Side’ is a somewhat overblown (but funny) send up of PMS. The somewhat silly ‘Prozac Made Me Stay’ ends with the line “Loving you is easy when I got this Prozac buzz.” Apparently, most of the people in the trailer park are a teensy bit unstable, judging from the number of songs that touch on psyche problems.

      As much as the Troubadours poke fun at the trailer park lifestyle, there’s a real love of the trailer park culture behind it, something that’s apparent in songs like ‘Full Moon Nights in Pine View Heights’ and ‘Falling in Love in America.’ While they don’t do anything astoundingly different with these songs, because they come from a place of sincerity, you can’t help but like them.

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