Pendergast, “The Truth About Saturday Night”
By Timothy Finn
Kansas City Star
October 28, 2004

Tony Ladesich is a blue-collar guy with a fiery political heart. This is a collection of dispatches from the middle class and below, from bars, bedrooms and neighborhoods where most jobs are ruts, most relationships are rocky and most households live from paycheck to bounced check. Lou Whitney produced, forging each song in his trademark roots-rock style. Stick around for “Union Man,” a narrative about the Molly McGuires and union activism that sounds, these days, like history from another planet.

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