Fear Not the Obvious

{{Infobox album | name = Fear Not the Obvious | type = studio | artist = the Yayhoos | cover = Yayhoos_FearNot.jpg | alt = | released = September 26, 2001 | recorded = 1996 | venue = | studio = | genre = Rock, Americana, alternative country | length = 46:50 | label = Bloodshot<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/album/fear-not-obvious|title=Fear Not The Obvious|date=December 20, 2013|website=Bloodshot Records}}</ref> | producer = Eric Ambel | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Put The Hammer Down | next_year = 2006 }} '''''Fear Not the Obvious''''' is the first album by the Yayhoos, released in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-yayhoos-mn0000585717/biography|title=The Yayhoos Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref>

"Bottle and a Bible" was included on the Ace Records compilation of songs played on Bob Dylan's ''Theme Time Radio Hour''.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

==Production== The album was recorded and produced by band member Eric Ambel at drummer Terry Anderson's father's barn in rural North Carolina.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://indyweek.com/news/culture/music/fear-yayhoos/|title=Fear Not the Yayhoos|first=Jon|last=Wurster|date=September 26, 2001|newspaper=Indy Week}}</ref> It was released about five years after it was recorded.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IxQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Fear+Not+the+Obvious+yayhoos+2001&pg=PA55|title=Declarations of Independents|magazine=Billboard|date=July 7, 2001|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.}}</ref>

==Critical reception== {{Album ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web|title=AllMusic review|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/fear-not-the-obvious-mw0000012568|website=AllMusic|accessdate=2 January 2015}}</ref> |rev2 = Robert Christgau |rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm2}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=4463&name=The+Yayhoos|title=The Yayhoos|website=Robert Christgau}}</ref> }} ''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."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Yayhoos – Fear Not the Obvious |url=https://www.nodepression.com/album-reviews/yayhoos-fear-not-the-obvious/ |magazine=No Depression |access-date=26 February 2021}}</ref> ''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."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/11/30/the-yayhoos-fear-not-the-obvi/43a14544-6bf3-4fad-ade5-90555b7a423a/|title=The Yayhoos|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> ''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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/yayhoos-fear_not_obvious|title=Yayhoos Fear Not the Obvious|website=Exclaim!}}</ref> 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''."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salon.com/2001/06/11/marcus46_2/|title=Real Life Rock Top 10|date=June 12, 2001|website=Salon}}</ref>

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

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Category:2001 debut albums Category:Bloodshot Records albums Category:Albums produced by Eric Ambel