| Hurray For The Riff Raff / Small Town Heroes |
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| Album: | Small Town Heroes | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Hurray For The Riff Raff | Added: | Jan 2014 | |
| Label: | Ato Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-01-31 | Pull Date: | 2014-04-04 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 30 | Mar 9 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 08, 2017: | Road Trip The New Sf Bay Blues, Crash On The Highway, Blue Ridge Mountain | 4. | Jun 05, 2015: | funk to folk - 'Nawlins! Levon's Dream | |
| 2. | Jul 02, 2015: | Tetragonal Banana St. Roch Blues | 5. | Mar 29, 2014: | Music Casserole The Body Electric | |
| 3. | Jun 12, 2015: | A Visit From Drum Blue Ridge Mountain | 6. | Mar 06, 2014: | Dinner Hour Small Town Heroes, I Know Its Wrong |
| Album Review |
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| Henry C-G Reviewed 2014-02-03 | ||
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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. No FCC detected. 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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