#505
November 20 1986
The Del Lords
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Genre: Roots Rock
4 out of 5
Highlights:
Heaven
Drug Deal
Against My Will
No Waitress No More
No, this isn’t as fantastic as their debut. You spend your life getting ready to write your first record and you pour your heart into and then you put it out and it sells…however many it sells and you tour and then…it’s time to write another one.
And that’s hard. That’s why I never wrote another record after our first.
This one doesn’t suck. In fact, it’s perfectly fine for what it is but what it is is just the next record from a band that should have made waves a few years before and been at least as well known (to listener like me) as X or The Blasters. But the guys can’t get past their 80s production and they sound like…well…they sound like Gin Blossoms.
But without Doug Hopkins’ alcoholic self-bloodletting.
The Del Lords were of the wrong time. Too late or too early.
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