2013 album from the Indie rockers led by James Dewees AKA Reggie. Dewees is best known as the keyboardist for the Get Up Kids, but has been involved in writing and touring with both New Found Glory and My Chemical Romance. After taking a break from the music scene, he was inspired by the outpour of support from fans to enter the studio and make another album. James recorded No Country for Old Musicians at Black Lodge Recording studios in Eudora, Kansas. NCFOM was the last album to ever be recorded there. Many friends he has made over the years including, Frank Iero, Adam Lazzara, Allison Weiss and Sean Ingram joined him to lend guest vocals on the album and Ray Toro joined to play guitar on two tracks.
No Country for Old Musicians, the Pure Noise-issued, Kickstarter-funded sixth long-player from former Get Up Kid James Dewees and company, is also the first Reggie and the Full Effect offering to arrive since 2008's Last Stop: Crappy Town. Like its predecessor, No Country for Old Musicians sprints past musical genres like a runaway radio dial while maintaining a continuously arched punk-pop backbone, but it deviates from Crappy Town's more depressive tendencies. A quick scan of the album artwork (a miniature Mr. T, "Boo-Yah!" spelled with bacon and eggs, and a Coen Brothers-unapproved movie poster send-up that proclaims "Winner of 0 2013 Any Awards") suggests that its creator is in a much more amiable headspace this time around, and the songs reflect that merry, pugilistic glow. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi
