Hard Working Americans - Rest In Chaos (2016) {Thirty Tigers MEL004}
Hard Working Americans - Rest In Chaos (2016) {Thirty Tigers MEL004}
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© 2016 Melvin Records / Thirty Tigers | MEL004
Rock / Americana / Folk Rock / Adult Alternative Rock / Jam Bands / Alt-Country
In 2013, singer and songwriter Todd Snider formed Hard Working Americans, a roots rock/jam band supergroup featuring musicians who'd previously worked with Widespread Panic, Col. Bruce Hampton, Ryan Adams, Chris Robinson, Great American Taxi, and others. For their first album, Hard Working Americans recorded a batch of songs about work from other artists, but Rest in Chaos is their first full-length set of original material. Mixing humor with pointed social satire, Rest in Chaos finds Snider and his group tackling both darker moods and high-spirited rock.
Hard Working Americans - Rest In Chaos (2016) {Thirty Tigers MEL004}
A few years ago, country-folk road-warrior Todd Snider abandoned his acoustic guitar and formed a new supergroup – Hard Working Americans – with veteran instrumentalists from the jam-band scene. Their 2014 debut was a surprisingly pointed post-Occupy covers collection centered around working class consciousness. The follow-up Rest in Chaos, with its dozen original songs, is the band’s first declarative statement of its own.
Clearly invigorated by the grooving psychedelic blues-sludge churned out by his new band, which is led by producer/bassist Dave Schools of Widespread Panic, Snider moves away from the sharp country storytelling chops displayed on Chaos in favor of a more abstract, observational impressionism. Sometimes, that means embracing the band’s trippy ethos on songs like “Opening Statement,” where he waxes philosophical about light, sound and dark matter over atmospheric, interweaving guitar from Neal Casal and Jesse Aycock. “Some guys are at their most connected,” Snider sings on "Dope is Dope," “When they are falling from grace.”
Chaos is Snider’s first album of original material in four years, surveying wreckage both personal and societal as he tries to make some sense of disorder and dystopia. These songs, often told by narrators who are unreliable at best, are populated with down-and-out druggies seeking salvation in their guitars, stubborn alcoholics and skeptical street-beggars. Highlights like the biblical stoner anthem “Half Ass Moses,” and “Massacre,” a Seventies country-tinged love ballad, however, show that Snider is still at his best when his songwriting closely mirrors the types of sarcastic slacker screeds and plainspoken weepers that he toggles between in his solo work.
At 67 minutes, this record could have probably used a bit more editing, but Rest in Chaos is definitive proof that Hard Working Americans is no half-baked side project. Instead, the group continues to be a fascinating roots-rock collaboration.
Hard Working Americans - Rest In Chaos (2016) {Thirty Tigers MEL004}
Musicians:
TODD SNIDER: Lead vocals
DAVE SCHOOLS: Bass guitar, background vocals
NEAL CASAL: Guitar, background vocals
CHAD STAEHLY: Keyboards, background vocals
DUANE TRUCKS: Drums and percussion
JESSE AYCOCK: Guitars, lap steel, background vocals
Additional background vocals: Elizabeth Cook, Courtney Jake, Dan Baird, Marymac, George Boedecker
Guy Clark plays guitar on "The High Price of Inspiration"
tracklist:
01 - Opening Statement
02 - It Runs Together
03 - Half Ass Moses
04 - Dope Is Dope
05 - Burn Out Shoes
06 - Roman Candles
07 - Ascending Into Madness
08 - Throwing The Goats
09 - Something Else
10 - Massacre
11 - The High Price of Inspiration
12 - Acid
13 - Purple Mountain Jamboree
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Hard Working Americans / Rest In Chaos
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Hard Working Americans / Rest In Chaos
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==== Log checksum 39CB5113BC3AD6C2164E16205F82BA82D69D3ECD74599A42361E9ABB53E1FF84 ====
Hard Working Americans - Rest In Chaos (2016) {Thirty Tigers MEL004}
Hard Working Americans - Rest In Chaos (2016) {Thirty Tigers MEL004}
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