The Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show

More Neil Young and Crazy Horse than the previous Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground-inspired album, The Syndicate rip through eight fairly traditional (save for the feedback) rock songs. The CD reissue includes This Is Not The Dream Syndicate Album...live!, five songs performed from the album. "The Medicine Show" and the similar "John Coltrane Stereo Blues" are the keepers, and check the guitar on "Bullet With My Name on It." The record wrestles with American roots music in a way college rockers probably weren't familiar with, and thus it was almost universally hated at the time. Read More