Sony Music Australia Kings Of Leon-youth And Young Manhood - Gold Series Cd

The Followills came blazing out of Juliet, Tennessee swathed in enough "Southern Strokes" hype to choke a mule. But they lived up to every bit of it on their fabulous debut, one of the decade's greatest garage rock records.

Stylish but downhome, punky but purdy, it veered from short, sharp tambourine-banging rockers to sultry, guttural slow burners.
Caleb's cotton-mouthed delivery fell somewhere between Kurt Cobain and an alcoholic tractor supplies salesman the perfect slop-jowled squawk for their odes to wayward Southern girls and the fallen boys who loved them