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The Walkabouts (3 CD)
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The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind (1993)
The Walkabouts - Setting the Woods on Fire (1994)
The Walkabouts - Devil's Road (1996)
The Walkabouts is an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1984. The core members since then are vocalist Carla Torgerson and vocalist and songwriter Chris Eckman. The rest of the line-up has changed several times.
The band draws inspiration from folk and country music (particullary Townes van Zandt, Neil Young and Johnny Cash), but also from other types of artists and musical styles such as Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, french chanson and Jacques Brel. Their sound is typically rich, with string arrangements and keyboards in addition to the standard rock instruments. In reviews the band's music is often described as melancholic or mellow, while Eckman's lyrics, concerning such themes as human relations, loneliness and restlessness, are often emphasized as poetic.
The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind (1993)
Like Yo La Tengo's Fakebook, the Walkabouts' Satisified Mind is a definitive artistic statement masquerading as a loose-knit collection of acoustic covers. Mining the work of diverse artists like the Carter Family, Gene Clark, Mary Margaret O'Hara, John Cale and Nick Cave, Satisfied Mind represents the purest evocation to date of the Walkabouts' aesthetic and its standing at the crossroads of country, rock, folk and punk.
Tracklist:
01. Satisfied Mind (by Rhodes & Hayes)
02. Loom of the Land (by Nick Cave)
03. The River People (by Robert Forster)
04. Polly (by Gene Clark)
05. Buffalo Ballet (by John Cale)
06. Lover's Crime (by Pewee Maddux)
07. Shelter for an Evening (by Gary Heffern)
08. Dear Darling (by Mary Margaret O'Hara)
09. Poor Side of the Town (by Johnny Rivers)
10. Free Money (by Patti Smith & Lenny Kaye)
11. The Storms are on the Ocean (by The Carter Family)
12. Feel Like Going Home (by Charlie Rich)
13. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone (Traditional)
The Walkabouts - Setting the Woods on Fire (1994)
Setting the Woods on Fire ranks among the Walkabouts' most rock-based efforts. A sweeping, stately record, it owes a great deal to the Stones' Exile on Main St.
Tracklist:
01. Good Luck Morning
02. Firetrap
03. Bordertown
04. Feeling No Pain
05. Old Crow
06. Almost Wisdom
07. Sand & Gravel
08. Nightdrive
09. Hole in the Mountain
10. Pass Me On Over
11. Up in the Graveyard
12. Promised
The Walkabouts - Devil's Road (1996)
It sounds like a joke that Devil's Road (1996) was recorded in part with the Warsaw Philharmonic, but the orchestration glides over or darts around the band's increasingly fluid playing and, in all seriousness, takes the music to another level: moody, often sinister, and deeply resonant, but now also soaring. The album's opening ballad, "The Light Will Stay On," perhaps the most uplifting song ever written about death, became a hit single (breaking into the top 40 in Germany, Belgium, and Sweden; receiving extensive airplay in Holland, France, Greece, and Portugal; even grazing the top 100 in England).
Tracklist:
01. The Light Will Stay On
02. Rebecca Wild
03. The Stopping Off Place
04. Cold Eyes
05. Christmas Valley
06. Blue Head Flame
07. When Fortune Smiles
08. All For This
09. Fairground Blues
10. The Leaving Kind
11. Forgiveness Song
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