THE ROADSIDE GRAVES | IF SHACKING UP IS ALL YOU WANT TO DO
Nearly eight years after its initial release, Autumn Tone is digitally reissuing The Roadside Graves’ debut LP, If Shacking Up Is All You Want To Do with six bonus tracks. The reissue captures the band in its inception, showcasing how great they were even then. The title of the album If Shacking Up Is All You Want To Do was taken from a line in Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way” and provide a basis for the marginalized, misguided and delinquent characters that inhabit The Roadside Graves’ mellow, rambling songs. Also, check-out The Roadside Graves’ new EP, You Won’t Be Happy With Me, which came out at the end of March. – Written by JFelton
posted by JFelton, April 23, 2010
ROADSIDE GRAVES | MY SON’S HOME
NJ’s Roadside Graves follow-up to 2007’s vastly underappreciated No One Will Know Where You’ve Been is the equally great 18-track My Son’s Home. The Roadside Graves combine folk, country and rock with timeless melodies, gorgeous harmonies and arresting songwriting along the lines of Dylan, Springsteen, The Grateful Dead, and The Band, while retaining an independent spirit of their own. Deceptively simple, hiding thoughtful themes and intelligent lyrics under a guise of catchy alt-country, My Son’s Home layers acoustic guitar hooks and strums with boozy horns and piano until the entire band is moving as one.
posted by JFelton, July 20, 2009
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