Between The Ditches features a new level of craftsmanship in both recording technique and
songwriting. The guitar playing alone should put the Rev. in the same class with his much revered
idols. The songwriting boasts an added maturity and runs the gamut in subject matter from the barn
burning, tongue in cheek, “Shut the Screen”, (where “It’s too dang hot and the bugs are too dang
mean“) to the evils of strip mining, an issue close to the hearts of this Indiana band in, “Don‘t Grind
It Down”. There seems to be a theme expressed throughout the album and stated clearly in their
first single “Devils Look Like Angels”: “Devil don’t live down in hell, the devil’s right here doing very
well.“
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