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The Fort Collins, Colorado-based Drag the River are rooted in punk–their songwriters are Jon Snodgrass of Armchair Martian and Chad Price of the post-Descendants group All–yet their sound is much subtler than one might expect. The country rock on Closed, the follow-up to their 2000 debut Hobo’s Demos, is not aggressive or all-out roaring as much as it is hard-driving and confessional. Zach Boddicker paints steel-guitar stripes on steady-rolling roots-rock cuts (“Medicine,” “Song for Robin Reichhardt”) and downtempo cautionary tales (“Smokefinger”). Elsewhere, the quintet devotes equal time to speedy shuffles (the loser’s anthem “Get Drunk”) and barroom weepers (“Forgiveness”).
–Anders Smith Lindall
“Closed” is arguably Drag the River’s best album. The anthem “Get Drunk” is the band’s most requested song and the album has become an essential soundtrack for drunks all over the world.
when you create a playlist in itunes – select all the tracks and under the “sorting” tab, title the “sort album” as the name of the playlist, and under the “options” tab, click the “part of a complilation” check box and select “yes”. easy peasy. that way it doesn’t change the name of the artists or albums, but the playlist stays organized.
oh – i missed a step… after you’ve selected all the tracks, right click and choose “get info”. it’ll ask you if you want to edit multiple artist info… just say yes.
i make a lot of playlists…
I CAN’T F&%#ING BELIEVE IT! This news is better than Christmas!
That’s exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
hey buddies i love the new site and as you know ive been missing the fairlanes welcome to nowhere and it makes my year that you have that and drive to nowhere! as i listen to them i just miss when i could go see them play it was a different world then! and we all wish the best for you guys in the new one!
the lack of any MD dates makes me sad.
i so wish i could make this. gonna be a great time.
Should play the Dover Brick House in Dover, NH. Two Cow Garage gets a lot of play in the bar and they have a great set up for live shows.
I am pretty thrilled about tonights St Pete show. I have not seen Drag/Jon in over a year. Even though they’ve been back to FL several times since. That article by Scott on Nine Bullets pretty much sums up my thoughts on DTR and music in general.