AMERICANS, by Adam Gnade & The Hot Earth All-Stars

AMERICANS

by Adam Gnade & The Hot Earth All-Stars

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1.	Hello America 04:54	buy track
2.	The Whole Lonesome Thing 05:34	buy track
3.	The Ballad of Tom Bluefeather 07:07	buy track
4.	You Got Mean 03:03	buy track
5.	Supper's Waiting on the Table 04:14	buy track
6.	This is the End of Something (But It's Not the End of You) 04:31	buy track

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OUT NOW FROM THE BLESSING FORCE LABEL!

1) Hello America
2) The Whole Lonesome Thing
3) The Ballad of Tom Bluefeather
4) You Got Mean
5) Supper's Waiting on the Table
6) This is the End of Something (But It's Not the End of You)

The result of an exhaustive week-long recording/writing binge, the songs on AMERICANS range from ecstatic "talking-song" anthems carried along with soaring lap-steel and gospel backing vocals to hush-talked, noise-damaged, Gowns-ian goth-country bummers.

It's a lot crammed into six songs; a full deconstructed Americana revue based around three separate storylines (a companion to Gnade's new novel, Caveworld, complete with allusions to stripmalls, juggalos, Pretzel Time, the stars of NASCAR, humid nights, the Little Bighorn, children, the 2012 election, loan sharks, debt, watertowers, Indian reservations, big American cars, etc.

If Gnade's earlier solo folk recordings pioneered a kind of spoken trailerpark blues, the AMERICANS EP feels more like the stage-five tornado that destroys the whole trailerpark and gives way to new life amidst the ruins. Let's hear it for The New...

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released April 2, 2013

Damon Moon, Sydney Eloise, Adam Laidlaw, Chris Cooke, Jacob Smith, Adam Gnade

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