test - deer tick

When listening to Born on Flag Day, it's really hard to tell that Deer Tick front man John McCauley is from Rhode Island. No, seems like the casual listener would take one quick listen to the Red Dirt songs and McCauley's predilection for taking his songs out onto the vast, open midwestern skies and bellowing a big ol' howl at the moon, and said listener would guess Mr. McCauley is from T-E-X-A-S. This version of Red Dirt or Americana (an distinction i'd guess the band wanted folks to take from the record, based on it's Mellencamp-esque album title) is what the kids in Dillon, Texas listen to when they're driving their beat up pickups down a dirt road, looking for direction, and a party to boot. The album sounds a little like it was recorded to sound good and a lot like it was recorded to sound like