If you saw this LP sitting in a milk crate with a yard sale price tag on it, you’d probably get a good laugh at its awfulness. And depending on your personal level of irony-laced hipsterness, you might even buy the record and bring it home thinking it’s going to be so-awful-it’s-funny.
But fuck your irony! Because Donnie & Joe Emerson not only make for a fascinating personal story, but their 1979 home-recorded album “Dreamin’ Wild” was recently reissued and is worth checking out. These long-forgotten brothers are actually amazing songwriters and musicians. Continue reading