So here are a few names alot of you might not recognize, though I'm willing to be alot of you will (all except Ben Nichols and Malin were recent discoveries for me). The Revival Tour is basically a bunch of punks getting in touch with their more heartfelt side. I think a guy we all know said it best when he said "I started this damned country band/cause punk rock is too hard to sing". This is great stuf folks....the sound can be a little iffy, but the content more than makes up for it. If you like your folk/country a little on the punk side this is right up your alley. What we have is Ben Nichols from Lucero, Chuck Ragan formerly from Hot Water Music, Tim Barry from Avail, and Jesse Malin formerly of D Generation and a frequent Ryan Adams collaborator. If you like this I would recommend picking up each of these artists most recent solo albums. Ben Nichols excellent concept album Last Pale Light In The West (inspired by the book Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy....read this book too if you haven't), Tim Barry's Manchester from last year, Chuck Ragan's Bristle Ridge, and Jesse Malin's covers album from last year On Your Sleeve (though you would certainly do better to pick up one of his earlier albums).
Also worth getting is the compilation Revival Road 2008 which features selections and live cuts from Nichols, Barry, and Ragan and is a great introduction to all three.
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does anyone else have problems extracting San Francisco?
ReplyDeleteabover^, it could be that that is where the "split" took place when I zipped the files. If you are trying to extract just one file, that would explain it. Try extracting all, and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteI tried extracting all, and I tried DLing from another source. Nothing worked
ReplyDeleteI can't get part 2 to work either.
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Thanks. This should be great.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this!
ReplyDeleteCormac McCarthy has been my favorite author for years, so of course I was fascinated by the idea of an alt-country album inspired by his bloodsoaked masterpiece. I bought "Last Pale Light In The West" last night, and I have to say, it's some seriously excellent music. And while it doesn't quite capture the apocalyptic spectacle of the novel either in music or lyrics--it's a little too human to speak to McCarthy's devils--the first line is perfect:
"In my hands I hold the ashes, in my veins black pitch runs."
It's one of life's purest pleasures to find new music to love. So thanks again.
Alex...so glad you like the ben nichols album. What a daunting task to try to write an album like that. It makes an excellent companion to the book. I've heard they are making a movie of Blood Meridian....I don't see how that could possibly work...but hey, let's see what they do with The Road first.
ReplyDeleteOthers, I will try to re-up this since there are problems
ok, so here is what I think is happening. This is a split RAR, which means that even though it is 2 files it acts as one. What you should do is DL both files into the same directory, then extract part 1. You will notice that part 2 extracts as well when you do this. Look at the files and check.
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OK, I reDL'd everything, tried to unpack, and still get everything except San Fran. I also tried 2 different apps to unpack the .rar
ReplyDeleteare you not doing torrents anymore?