HARD WORKING AMERICANS
''REST IN CHAOS''
2016
66:43
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01 - Opening Statement 05:18
02 - It Runs Together 03:22 (Todd Snider)
03 - Half Ass Moses 04:22
04 - Dope Is Dope 03:22 (Chuck Mead, Todd Snider)
05 - Burn Out Shoes 05:54
06 - Roman Candles 05:32
07 - Ascending Into Madness 05:20 (Todd Snider)
08 - Throwing The Goats 05:23
09 - Something Else 07:04
10 - Massacre 05:53
11 - The High Price of Inspiration 03:28 (Guy Clark, Jedd Hughes)
12 - Acid 07:48
13 - Purple Mountain Jamboree 03:51
Tracks By Hard Working Americans Except 02, 04, 07, 11
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Jesse Aycock/Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Dan Baird/Vocals (Background)
George Boedecker/Vocals (Background)
Neal Casal/Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Guy Clark/Guitar
Elizabeth Cook/Vocals (Background)
Courtney Jaye/Vocals (Background)
Marymac/Vocals (Background)
Dave Schools/Guitar (Bass), Vocals (Background)
Todd Snider/Vocals
Chad Staehly/Keyboards, Vocals (Background)
Duane Trucks/Drums, Percussion
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Mark Deming
When Todd Snider decided it was time to work with musicians his own age for a change, he ended up forming an all-star group of jam band and alt-country veterans known as the Hard Working Americans. In 2012, after Snider had wrapped up touring behind his album Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, he had a conversation with his friend Chad Staehly, keyboard man with the group Great American Taxi, about his working methods. "One day Chad Staehly pointed out to me that I spend a lot of time with my heroes and avoid my peers," Snider told reporter Jonathan Bernstein. "He was like, 'I always see you with Jerry Jeff (Walker), or John Prine, or Kris Kristofferson. Who do you like that's your age?'" With that in mind, for his next project Snider put together a band of like-minded musicians of similar vintage, including Staehly on keys, guitarist Neal Casal (of the Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Ryan Adams & the Cardinals), bassist Dave Schools (of Widespread Panic), and drummer Duane Trucks (of King Lincoln and Col. Bruce Hampton's School of Music). The new group adopted the name the Hard Working Americans, and despite Snider's pedigree as a songwriter, for their debut album they recorded a set of cover tunes about the frustrations of working life. The band made its live debut in December 2013 at a benefit concert in Denver, Colorado. The Hard Working Americans was released in early 2014, followed by a short tour.
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''REST IN CHAOS''
2016
66:43
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01 - Opening Statement 05:18
02 - It Runs Together 03:22 (Todd Snider)
03 - Half Ass Moses 04:22
04 - Dope Is Dope 03:22 (Chuck Mead, Todd Snider)
05 - Burn Out Shoes 05:54
06 - Roman Candles 05:32
07 - Ascending Into Madness 05:20 (Todd Snider)
08 - Throwing The Goats 05:23
09 - Something Else 07:04
10 - Massacre 05:53
11 - The High Price of Inspiration 03:28 (Guy Clark, Jedd Hughes)
12 - Acid 07:48
13 - Purple Mountain Jamboree 03:51
Tracks By Hard Working Americans Except 02, 04, 07, 11
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Jesse Aycock/Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Dan Baird/Vocals (Background)
George Boedecker/Vocals (Background)
Neal Casal/Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Guy Clark/Guitar
Elizabeth Cook/Vocals (Background)
Courtney Jaye/Vocals (Background)
Marymac/Vocals (Background)
Dave Schools/Guitar (Bass), Vocals (Background)
Todd Snider/Vocals
Chad Staehly/Keyboards, Vocals (Background)
Duane Trucks/Drums, Percussion
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Mark Deming
When Todd Snider decided it was time to work with musicians his own age for a change, he ended up forming an all-star group of jam band and alt-country veterans known as the Hard Working Americans. In 2012, after Snider had wrapped up touring behind his album Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables, he had a conversation with his friend Chad Staehly, keyboard man with the group Great American Taxi, about his working methods. "One day Chad Staehly pointed out to me that I spend a lot of time with my heroes and avoid my peers," Snider told reporter Jonathan Bernstein. "He was like, 'I always see you with Jerry Jeff (Walker), or John Prine, or Kris Kristofferson. Who do you like that's your age?'" With that in mind, for his next project Snider put together a band of like-minded musicians of similar vintage, including Staehly on keys, guitarist Neal Casal (of the Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Ryan Adams & the Cardinals), bassist Dave Schools (of Widespread Panic), and drummer Duane Trucks (of King Lincoln and Col. Bruce Hampton's School of Music). The new group adopted the name the Hard Working Americans, and despite Snider's pedigree as a songwriter, for their debut album they recorded a set of cover tunes about the frustrations of working life. The band made its live debut in December 2013 at a benefit concert in Denver, Colorado. The Hard Working Americans was released in early 2014, followed by a short tour.
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