Track Listings (14) - Disc #1| All Artists: Drag the River Title: Closed Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Upland Records Release Date: 3/26/2002 Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Styles: Americana, Country Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 654193900823 |
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The Fort Collins, Colorado-based Drag the River are rooted in punk--their songwriters are Jon Snodgrass of Armchair Martian and Chad Price of the post-Descendants group All--yet their sound is much subtler than one might e... more » |
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Amazon.com The Fort Collins, Colorado-based Drag the River are rooted in punk--their songwriters are Jon Snodgrass of Armchair Martian and Chad Price of the post-Descendants group All--yet their sound is much subtler than one might expect. The country rock on Closed, the follow-up to their 2000 debut Hobo's Demos, is not aggressive or all-out roaring as much as it is hard-driving and confessional. Zach Boddicker paints steel-guitar stripes on steady-rolling roots-rock cuts ("Medicine," "Song for Robin Reichhardt") and downtempo cautionary tales ("Smokefinger"). Elsewhere, the quintet devotes equal time to speedy shuffles (the loser's anthem "Get Drunk") and barroom weepers ("Forgiveness"). --Anders Smith Lindall Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsAn alt.country classic Marvin Mckee | Tallahassee, FL United States | 06/14/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "i am baffled by the previous reviewer's accolades and then a three star rating. in my view this cd is a long awaited revival of true altcountry music. wonderful steel, gritty vocals and, yes, songs about drinking (and its consequences). things have gotten way too tamed down as of late, thanks dtr." Drinks, drugs and emotional wreckage anchor alt.country gem hyperbolium | Earth, USA | 02/09/2008 (4 out of 5 stars) "The second album from this Ft. Collins, Colorado aggregation, originally released in 2002, sounds less like a side-project for its punk-rock membership (Chad Price of All, Jon Snodgrass and Paul Rucker of Armchair Martian) and more like a solid alt.country songwriting partnership and band. Though heavy on the electric guitars, there's plenty of melodically careening steel (courtesy of Zach Boddicker), drawled vocals and down-in-the-mouth lyrics.
Price sings with a gruff bluesiness similar to Jon Dee Graham. He and Snodgrass write of the emotional triggers leading to a cozy relationship with the bottle, and the dead-end life of such self-medication. Their songs slide from emotional catastrophes ("So Lonely," "Song for Robin Reichhardt," "Calloused Heart #2," "Lost Weekend") into a downward spiral of drink, drugs and co-dependence ("Forgiveness," "Barroom Bliss," "Booze 'n' Pills," "Get Drunk," "Smokefinger," "Medicine"), with only a brief pitstop at the junction of introspection and hope ("Embrace the Sound," "Life of Ruin"). One might take these songs literally (and, thus, be on the lookout for news of the band's sextuple liver transplant) if their lyrical detail didn't suggest an extended bout of lucidity. Factt, fiction, or somewhere in between, these stories of tormented hearts provide an edginess that's stripped of tear-in-your-beer romance. For maximum commiseration, set your CD player to "repeat." [©2008 hyperbolium dot com]" |
