What arrives is an accomplished roots-music album that serves as a reminder of the band’s legacy." There’s a reason: the band reunited with producer Ed Stasium (Talking Heads, Motörhead, Smithereens), who captures with clarity the band’s dynamic textures (and the Bangles’ backing vocals). Featuring both rock songs (“The Sound,” “What the Eagle Sees”) and ballads (“Let it Fly,” “If You Want to See Me Cry”), the record sounds fantastic. In reuniting, Griffin said in a statement that “Psychedelic Country Rock” is “the album we were always trying to make.” Which is to say, it’s a tangle of country, folk-rock, soul and psychedelia. Sid Griffin has issued records with his band the Coal Porters and written authoritative books on Bob Dylan and Gram Parsons. Since their split in the late 1980s, the band has regrouped a number of times to perform and celebrate its legacy. "The title of the band’s first new album in 30 years is a pretty apt description of what lies within - and what defined the Long Ryders during their 1980s heyday.įounded as the so-called Paisley Underground movement was drawing national attention via Los Angeles bands the Bangles, Green on Red, Rain Parade, the Dream Syndicate and others, the Long Ryders combined distorted post-punk guitars with road-tested twang.
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