| Brainwasher | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Bare Jr. |
| Border: | yes |
| Recorded: | Dark Horse Recording Studios, Franklin, Tennessee |
| Genre: | Roots rock |
| Label: | Immortal, Virgin |
| Prev Title: | Boo-Tay |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | Young Criminals' Starvation League |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
Brainwasher is the second and final studio album by Bobby Bare Jr.'s band Bare Jr.[1] It was released on October 10, 2000, on Immortal Records and Virgin Records.[2]
In a favorable review of Brainwasher, Mike Warren wrote that the album "...offers plenty of genuine rock and roll moments, and [Bobby] Bare [Jr.]'s an honors graduate from the "walking wounded but still willing to take a pratfall" school of songwriting."[3] In the January 2001 issue of CMJ New Music Monthly, Meredith Ochs wrote that the album's "...string-and-piano overture is so goofy that it does justice to the shenanigans to come." She also praised Tracy Hackney's electric dulcimer parts on the album.