Ball of Wax 41 Songs: Bucky Fereke & the Pony Express – Please Don’t Wreck Up My World

Bucky Fereke, out of Lowell, MA, is yet another newcomer to the Ball of Wax fold (always happy to have more folks from my home state), and he brings us the delightfully low-fi “Please Don’t Wreck Up My World.” There’s nothing particularly fancy going on here – just the beer-and-whiskey-soaked plea of a (soon to be?) jilted lover, simple country guitar, and a lot of tape hiss and reverb – but it all adds up to a new country classic, as far as I’m concerned. I’m no country expert, but I could hear anyone from Hasil Adkins to George Jones making this song their own – or maybe we could get Elvis Costello to do a version for a second volume of Almost Blue? Someone get on that.