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Fear Not the Obvious is the first album by The Yayhoos, released in 2001.[4]

Fear Not the Obvious
Studio album by The Yayhoos
Released	September 26, 2001
Recorded	1996
Genre	Rock, Americana, alternative country
Length	46:50
Label	Bloodshot[1]
Producer	Eric Ambel
The Yayhoos chronology
Fear Not the Obvious (2001) Put The Hammer Down (2006)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	[3]

"Bottle and a Bible" was included on the Ace Records compilation of songs played on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour.^{[citation needed]}

Production

The album was recorded and produced by band member Eric Ambel at drummer Terry Anderson's father's barn in rural North Carolina.[5] It was released about five years after it was recorded.[6]

Critical reception

No Depression wrote that the band sound "like every band that ever staggered through three sets a night for all the beer they could drink."[7] The Washington Post wrote that "the Yayhoos go for the most reliable basics of rock 'n' roll -- a whomping 4/4 beat, lyrics full of barroom jokes and pick-up lines, noisy guitars, three chords and a cloud of dust."[8] Exclaim! wrote: "It's actually a little unnerving how easily Baird and Ambel are able to update the classic Faces vibe when contemporaries like the Black Crowes seem to labour over it."[9] Greil Marcus described the sound as "a foursome with bad teeth in a fearless stumble into the Faces' A Nod Is as Good as a Wink ... to a Blind Horse."[10]

Track listing

1. "What Are We Waiting For" (Eric Ambel, Terry Anderson) – 2:57
2. "Get Right with Jesus" (Dan Baird) – 4:17
3. "Monkey with a Gun" (Ambel) – 3:29
4. "I Can Give You Everything" (Anderson, Anderson) – 3:08
5. "Bottle and a Bible" (Anderson, Baird) – 3:33
6. "For Cryin' Out Loud" (Keith Christopher) – 4:15
7. "Oh! Chicago" (Baird) – 4:19
8. "Wicked World" (Baird) – 5:08
9. "Baby I Love You" (Ambel) – 4:00
10. "Hunt You Down" (Anderson) – 3:20
11. "Hankerin'" (Baird) – 3:48
12. "Dancing Queen" (Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus) – 4:23

References

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