"I was talking to a record distributor the other day about punk. The guy
had clearly done some thinking about these things and had come up with an
interesting term. "Punk Rock is nothing more than White, Urban Blues," he
said. I really like that. This simple phrase contains an essential truth about
why this type of music has hung around so persistently in the United States.
Punk rock is a form of musical expression roughly equivalent to the blues,
save in a different time and place.
My distributor friend wasn't quite right about one thing, however. While it
undoubtedly emerged from the streets of the city, punk rock can no longer be
considered an urban musical form. This record proves it. The Connie Dungs come
from a town called Ashland, Kentucky. They're an extremely talented punk
band, the real thing, not a pack of rednecks playing dress up and trying to
scam a million bucks from Warner Brothers.
When a band as solid as The Connie Dungs can emerge from a Kentucky town of
20,000 people and can put out a record with a label based in an Oregon town
with 40,000 folks, you know for certain that this White, Urban Blues stuff
has generated roots far deeper than New York, L.A., and San Francisco."-T.Chandler
(taken from the back of the "I Hate This Town" 7")
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