Ayatollah Khomeini
Slim Gallows and the Polyester Moonshine Syndicate
1) The Shah is Gone (an' Khomeini's Comin')
2) Qom to Tehran (A Life in the Seminaries)
3) The Black Turban (Rise of the Ayatollah)
4) Death to Freedom (Crimes of the Islamic Republic)
5) Hanging in Evin (Tales from the Prisons)
6) Friday Prayers, Saturday Executions (How They Rule Through Fear)
7) They Took My Son At Dawn (A Mother's Lament)
8) No More Songs on the Radio (Banned and Broken)
9) America, the Great Satan (Death to the Great Satan)
10) When the Ayatollah Came to Town (Hope Turned to Terror)
11) The Last Tear in Tehran (For the Martyrs and the Missing)
AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI Slim Gallows and the Polyester Moonshine Syndicate
Turbans, twang, and a whole lot of trouble. Slim Gallows and the Polyester Moonshine Syndicate saddle up for their boldest ride yet, spinning eleven tracks of pedal steel, prison ballads, and Persian politics into a honky tonk fever dream. From a fugitive king to a fiery ayatollah, from smuggled cassette tapes to smuggled arms deals, this record chases history through the desert with a fiddle in one hand and a grin on its face. It's sharp, it's twangy, it's occasionally a gut punch, and it never once lets the facts get in the way of a good hook. Come for the puns, stay for the history lesson you didn't know you needed.
