Ween throw a curveball from God knows where with 12 Golden Country Greats. It's a surprisingly coherent collection of 10 songs which are fairly restrained and influenced by country music, as the title of this album indicates; it helps that Dean and Gene went out of their way to retrieve other musicians well-versed within the genre. I myself am barely a fan of said style, though these boys end up making this new experience relatively interesting and barely tiresome. Ween would eventually release what I believe to their magnum opus in the form of The Mollusk, and if you were expecting this one to sound anything like its successor, Pure Guava, or even Chocolate and Cheese, consider yourself both a little disgruntled and curious at the same time.
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