I want our procession to be led by a bunch of men our age with beer guts pushing their shirt buttons apart, shouldering a statue of whoever our appropriate goddess is — possibly Coatlicue, an Aztec Earth Goddess, or maybe Hillary Clinton.
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In that case, keep plugging away forever; there are lots of genres that don't care about bald patches, boring clothes, or beer guts, but if arena tours and MTV Awards are your plan, strap in, because this is going to sting a little: As you hit 30, the concern should be that despite what the note that accompanies your demo says, you may not actually have a bold, fresh take on indie rock, and in fact you may be in possession of a dated, uninspired take on indie rock.
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The main album features covers of Louis Jordans 1939 song "Doug the Jitterbug", Wynonie Harriss 1950 rhythm and blues version of Hank Pennys "Bloodshot Eyes" and Bull Moose Jacksons 1947 "I Want a Bowlegged Woman", while the bonus disc includes a French-language cover of Django Reinhardts "Nuages" and a cover of "Flat Butts and Beer Guts (Or How I Learned to Vomit Standing Up)" by New York cowpunk band the Barnyard Playboys, from their 2000 album Dumbass on a Rampage.
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"Mama" helped establish the Oregon Bears in 1995, which began with 13 members and has since grown to more than 300, becoming one of the largest bear groups in the United States. The bar was the "official" home of the Oregon Bears until 2007, when they voted to move to Eagle Portland because of its larger size and greater number of services. In 2007, Willamette Week Byron Beck described Dirty Duck as the "quirkiest queer tavern in town" and a "homebase hole-in-the-wall for a group of gay men with beer guts and bushy brows". Blackout Leather Productions, a nonprofit organization and volunteer group of leather enthusiasts in Oregon and southwest Washington, recognized Dirty Duck Tavern as the "Business of the Year" in 2004 and 2008, at their annual Rose & Thorn Awards.
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Most notably, the album features appearances by Grammy Award-winning accordionist Buckwheat Zydeco on the zydeco-styled song "Tchoupitoulas Congregation", and Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band guitarist Zoot Horn Rollo, a Eugene resident and personal friend of Perry's, on the psychobilly cover "Flat Butts and Beer Guts". John Fohl, a former member of Dr. Johns Lower 911 band and Daddies guitarist from 1990–1992, provided baritone and slide guitar for the western swing track "Peckerheads and Badasses". Although the band originally announced a projected release date of winter 2011, updates on the album's development went entirely unheard of until a December 2011 interview with Perry, where he vaguely mentioned continued work on the album but finally confirmed its title, White Teeth, Black Thoughts. Perry later revealed that following initial completion of recording in late 2011, the band ultimately decided to record an additional batch of songs and release an exclusive version of White Teeth, Black Thoughts as a double album.
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Cityview offered a more indifferent opinion, calling the album "a solid, well- developed piece of music" which was "more mature and nuanced than maybe anything the band has previously released", though noted that it felt like an "album out of time" and it was "hard to shake the feeling that it's come about a decade too late". In a brief 2014 review, Matt Collar of Allmusic rated the album with 3.5 out of 5 stars, summarizing it as "an album of exuberant, urbane dance music that moves from popular standards to new compositions with devilish ease". Of the few publications to review the double-disc deluxe edition, Ink 19 called the second disc "more experimental and generally more fun than the first", though recommended both discs as featuring worthwhile material, singling out the "touching" "Brown Flight Jacket" and the "fun to sing along with" "Flat Butts and Beer Guts". ReadJunk called the album "a great swing-influenced album", describing the first disc as containing "some pretty good swing songs", but urged readers to pick up the deluxe version, writing "[y]ou'll be missing out an entire disc of great songs if you don't".
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