Hey Noel. What you have here are 2 great albums - one with bizarre nursery rhymes that have weird appeal. The other album is full of original sounding gems that make an unusual and enjoyable sound. Worth re-releasing as 2 albums? Yes, yes yes!!!

Some of these children's songs are ridiculously scary, i love the reworking, it's almost as if they fit right in with the meaning -the opening 'Rock A Bye Baby' (isn't that about shaking babies cos they wont stop crying? pretty dark thoughts...) is well referenced at track 5 with 'Beautiful Dreamer' and nicely contrasted with a bit more light hearted jangly country/folk in between. 'Rock A Bye Baby #2' is a good inclusion to reference from the first, but perhaps i would have been happy with just those three? Noel Bush has a really great voice on some of these tracks, notably 'Come To Lane County' 'Midnight Special'.the more 'acoustic' sounding tracks are my favourite which shares some similarities to the works of those 'new' Americana of Bill Callahan and Doug Paisley I think mostly what let's the album down is it's great length: with some brutal editing i feel this albums could be really special, the arrangements are really good throughout, jovial and sarcastic, really compliments the selection of lawless cowboy songs, and 60s style psychedelic sound. for this reason i'm not quite giving it a rating of 'good'.... but if it was maybe half the length or so, i'd say perhaps it'd get an 8