Divine Providence

On the Providence roots rockers' previous LPs, you could chalk up their rabble-rousing, hard-living, road-dog ideal to youth and inexperience, and it was hard to truly hate. It's a different story with Divine Providence.

Deer Tick’s singer-songwriter John McCauley is obsessed with the regular young-man stuff—drinking, fighting, fucking, puking, sleeping, usually in that order—but on Divine Providence, it all comes out sounding like love songs. The object of McCauley’s affection is The Replacements; specifically, Paul Westerberg’s…

John McCauley’s career in music has been fixed on a path of steady evolution ever since the release of Deer Tick’s studio…

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