Consumer Guide Album

Sally Timms and the Drifting Cowgirls: The Butcher's Boy Extended Player [T.I.M.S. EP, 1986]
The most seriously country (or maybe just the most serious) Mekon exercises her pipes and her sensibility. "Long Black Veil," a folk song that isn't a folk song, and "Dover," a Dolly Parton cover that could just as well be, are up in Gram Parsons's neck of the stratosphere. One of the Langford-Timms originals comes close. A-