I was talking with John, the lead singer of Roadside Graves, after this session about how to describe the band to those unfamiliar with the New Jersey outfit. He tended to go with older acts such such as The Band, Dylan and Burrito Brothers while I threw out modern day contemporaries like The Felice Brothers amongst others. This became a tired exercise, so I said to tell them this: “We sound like awesome. Go buy a t-shirt.”
And they do and I did purchase myself a t-shirt that night after the session. Finding out Roadside Graves was putting out a new album this year was truly one of the pleasant surprises of 2009. I thought that after their excellent 2007 release No One Will Know Where You Have Been, that they had disbanded and moved on. But thankfully that was not the case and My Son’s Home is one of my favorites of 2009.
So dig into the five tracks, including “West Coast” off the aforementioned No One Will Know Where You Have Been. And the video of “Ruby” shows the boys playing one of top 10 tracks of 2009.
The Roadside Graves Introduction
Exclusive: The Roadside Graves – Take A Train
Exclusive: The Roadside Graves – Radio
Exclusive: The Roadside Graves – Ruby
Exclusive: The Roadside Graves – Far And Wide
Exclusive: The Roadside Graves – West Coast
Download The Roadside Graves live session as a zip.
Video: The Roadside Graves – Take A Train
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Vocally and, to a lesser degree, musically, I’m reminded of the Bodeans. Whether that’s good or bad, I dunno.
I love these guys. Thanks for this
Yes!!! I’ve been hanging out for this one – thank you!
Brilliant you have these on. They kindly recorded a session a few months ago for a radio show I present here in the called simple folk on radio reverb. Along with the brilliant Felice brothers and The sumner brothers they are my favourite band right now.
Love them! Thank you!
Go Jersey!
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