Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes

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Dec 9, 2017 Sold Date

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Artikel Name: Small Town Heroes
Genre: Pop/Rock Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: ATO Titelanzahl: 12

Trackliste LP - 1

1. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Blue Ridge Mountain 2. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Crash on the Highway 3. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Good Time Blues (An Outlaw's Lament) 4. Hurray for the Riff Raff - End of the Line 5. Hurray for the Riff Raff - New SF Bay Blues 6. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Body Electric 7. Hurray for the Riff Raff - No One Else 8. Hurray for the Riff Raff - St. Roch Blues 9. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Levon's Dream 10. Hurray for the Riff Raff - I Know It's Wrong (But That's Alright) 11. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes 12. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Forever Is Just a Day

Beschreibung

On the title cut of Small Town Heroes, Alynda Lee Segarra, the mastermind (and sometimes sole member) behind ramshackle New Orleans-based folk ensemble Hurray for the Riff Raff, wrestles with the fallout of a relationship gone sour over a single finger-picked guitar paired with the slow, distant freight train hum of a Hammond B-3, and reaches a simple, well-weathered conclusion; "I tempted fate, and I acted smart/I grew some callous on my heart". Segarra's take on the Big Easy, and dusty, boxcar Americana in general, is hardly groundbreaking, but her sonorous and soulful voice, and her ability to weave a real sense of place and emotional authenticity into well-worn folk motifs make for a compelling listen, especially when she peppers the familiar with a pinch or two of subversion. Both "Crash on the Highway" and "The Body Electric" are built upon a foundation of tumbleweed-strewn, dust bowl fatalism, but the former turns tragedy into amusing tour diary fodder ("We can't make it to our gig on time"), and the latter offers a up a smart, feminist take on the traditional murder ballad ("Like an old sad song, you heard it all before/Deliah's gone but I'm settling the score"). Throughout it all Segarra struts her stuff without the slightest bit of arrogance (most of the arrangements are spare, but never willfully so), offering up a confident, yet ultimately amiable set of millennial-informed, urban crafted, Woody Guthrie-inspired, contemporary hobo-folk anthems that play fast and loose with genre tropes without losing the essence that makes them universal. [Small Town Heroes was also released on LP.] ~ James Christopher Monger

James Christopher Monger