Anti-comedian Neil Hamburger is adept at finding
new ways to be horrible. Unfortunately, those ways are often designed more to
be annoying than exciting. After albums like 2002's Laugh Out Lord (a mix of clean Christian
comedy and dirty jokes) and 1998's earnest Tribute To Diana, Princess Of
Wales EP,
the only conceivable way the audience-baiting, obnoxiously throat-clearing
Hamburger can alienate his audience further is with a straight-faced country
album—and terrible singing. He dons a Texas toupee and bolo tie, but the
shtick is essentially the same. Though it succeeds at being boring, unbearable,
and cookie-cutter Music Row fare, there are scattered moments that make the
bumpy ride worthwhile, like a diatribe against idiots who recycle too much
("The Recycle Bin"), in which he booms, "Stop tainting the waste stream with
pieces of wood and old underwear!" and the obligatory patriotic song, "How Can I Still Be Patriotic (When They've Taken Away My
Right To Cry)."
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