Nicolae Ceausescu
Slim Gallows and the Polyester Moonshine Syndicate
1) The Ballad of Nicolae Ceaușescu
2) The Palace of People's Lies
3) When the Secret Police Come Callin'
4) I Heard the Iron Curtain Fall
5) Brass Hats and Bare Cupboards
6) The Soviets Made a Promise
7) Dear Elena (I Wrote You This Letter)
8) Carpathian Heartache
9) One Man's Plan
10) Hangin' On By a Decree
11) The People's Song (Banned Version)
12) Outro - Long Live Nobody
NICOLAE CEAUSESCU Slim Gallows and the Polyester Moonshine Syndicate
Twelve tracks. One dictator. A whole lot of twang. Slim Gallows and the Polyester Moonshine Syndicate ride again with their sharpest concept record yet, tracing the rise and fall of Romania's most self-decorated strongman through pedal steel, prison ballads, and a chorus you're not supposed to sing too loud. From a cobbler's bench in the Carpathians to a marble palace nobody can afford to heat, this is classic honky-tonk storytelling turned loose on one of history's strangest personality cults. Expect waltzing paranoia, a love letter you'll wish you hadn't read, and a closing hymn for every empty pedestal in every crumbling regime. Equal parts history lesson and hoedown, wickedly funny and dead serious where it counts. Brass hats, bare cupboards, and a whole lot of decrees. Turn it up, comrade.
