Hurray For The Riff Raff / Small Town Heroes
Album: | Small Town Heroes | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Hurray For The Riff Raff | Added: | Jan 2014 | |
Label: | Ato Records |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2014-01-31 | Pull Date: | 2014-04-04 |
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Week Ending: | Mar 30 | Mar 9 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Dec 06, 2024: | Strum, Pick, and Thrash
End Of The Line |
4. | Jun 12, 2015: | A Visit From Drum
Blue Ridge Mountain |
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2. | Jun 08, 2017: | Road Trip
The New Sf Bay Blues, Crash On The Highway, Blue Ridge Mountain |
5. | Jun 05, 2015: | funk to folk - 'Nawlins!
Levon's Dream |
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3. | Jul 02, 2015: | Tetragonal Banana
St. Roch Blues |
6. | Mar 29, 2014: | Music Casserole
The Body Electric |
Album Review
Henry C-G
Reviewed 2014-02-03
Reviewed 2014-02-03
Folk album with a range of more country-sounding tracks (#1) to more modern folksy music (#5) from a New Orleans-based group. All of the songs are sad, but they are a good kind of sad. Female lead vocals backed up by a mix of banjo and fiddle. It sounds a bit like ‘Iron and Wine’ to me.
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1. (2:33) * Ramblin’ (in a nice way). Plucked banjo behind sweet female vocals.
2. (2:45) Slow harmonized vocals. The sort of forlorn track you might hear on the jukebox if you walked into a dusty saloon next to a two-lane road.
3. (5:17) Really slow sad track with slide guitar in the background. Imagine tumbleweeds rolling by, a rusted out pickup truck, and an empty bottle of rye whiskey.
4. (3:38) * Dylan-style harmonica leads in to mid-tempo ramble
5. (4:01) * Slow whispery remake of the Jesse Fuller tune “SF Bay Blues” (“Walkin’ with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay…”)
6. (2:50) Surprisingly matter-of-fact song about murder (“Said you’re gonna shoot me down, put my body in the river while the whole world sings”)
7. (3:17) Less successful, upbeat track
8. (5:09) Repetitive too-long mid-tempo
9. (3:50) Super-slow quiet track
10. (2:58) Upbeat
11. (4:28) Title track. Slow and sad.
12. (3:18) Slow, mournful with sad fiddles. Sounds like they’re playing in an empty church.
Review by Henry C-G
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1. (2:33) * Ramblin’ (in a nice way). Plucked banjo behind sweet female vocals.
2. (2:45) Slow harmonized vocals. The sort of forlorn track you might hear on the jukebox if you walked into a dusty saloon next to a two-lane road.
3. (5:17) Really slow sad track with slide guitar in the background. Imagine tumbleweeds rolling by, a rusted out pickup truck, and an empty bottle of rye whiskey.
4. (3:38) * Dylan-style harmonica leads in to mid-tempo ramble
5. (4:01) * Slow whispery remake of the Jesse Fuller tune “SF Bay Blues” (“Walkin’ with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay…”)
6. (2:50) Surprisingly matter-of-fact song about murder (“Said you’re gonna shoot me down, put my body in the river while the whole world sings”)
7. (3:17) Less successful, upbeat track
8. (5:09) Repetitive too-long mid-tempo
9. (3:50) Super-slow quiet track
10. (2:58) Upbeat
11. (4:28) Title track. Slow and sad.
12. (3:18) Slow, mournful with sad fiddles. Sounds like they’re playing in an empty church.
Review by Henry C-G
Track Listing
1. | Blue Ridge Mountain | 7. | No One Else | |||
2. | Crash On The Highway | 8. | St. Roch Blues | |||
3. | Good Time Blues | 9. | Levon's Dream | |||
4. | End Of The Line | 10. | I Know Its Wrong | |||
5. | The New Sf Bay Blues | 11. | Small Town Heroes | |||
6. | The Body Electric | 12. | Forever Is Just A Day |