Erich Honecker
Slim Gallows and the Polyester Moonshine Syndicate
1) Ten Years in Brandenburg
2) The Man Who Built the Wall
3) Dear Walter
4) Comrades' Kiss
5) Margot's Blue Shirts
6) I Never Promised You a Paradise
7) Trabant Blues
8) Bank Account in the Bahamas
9) Goodbye, Moskau
10) All the Comrades (Ain't What They Use to Be)
11) The Wall Came Tumblin' Down (Someday)
12) Santiago, So Far From Home
Erich Honecker Slim Gallows and the Polyester Moonshine Syndicate
Twelve tracks of pedal steel, prison ballads, and Politburo backstabbing, tracing one true believer's climb from a coal town roofer's son to the last man holding the keys to a crumbling republic. This is a workers' paradise you can two-step to: a fraternal kiss that outlived the country it was meant to save, a car with a waiting list longer than a marriage, a wall built with pride and torn down with hammers, and a final act played out in exile, far from the podiums and parades. Slim Gallows and the boys give it the full honky-tonk treatment, swapping out drawls and Cadillacs for accents and Trabants, but keeping every ounce of heartbreak, hypocrisy, and hard-earned twang. Equal parts history lesson and honky-tonk send-up, Erich Honecker asks the question every good country song eventually gets around to: what's a man left with once the whole system he built collapses out from under him? Grab your boots. Comrade, the bar's open.
