Setting the Woods on Fire
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This stalwart Northwestern quartet stands apart from the pack thanks to the wide-ranging keyboards of Glenn Slater and the plaintive/gruff vocal poles held by Carla Torgerson and lyricist Chris Eckman. While Setting the Woods on Fire's disposition in pensive and vaguely ominous throughout, there's a full range of material to be found here. "Sand and Gravel" is a somber and resolute tune with a stately vocal by Torgerson. Eckman steps to the fore on "Old Crow," a Exile On Main Street-like rocker with Slater making like Nicky Hopkins on the keys while Eckman whips slide guitar runs across the muck like Keith Richards's Yank cousin. "Hole in the Mountain" brings the two voices together over chugging Stones beat and brass from guests the Tiny Hat Orchestra Horns. --Steven Stolder --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Album Description
Setting the Woods on Fire ranks among the Walkabouts' most rock-based efforts. A sweeping, stately record, it owes a great deal to the Stones' Exile on Main St. Digipak. Sub Pop. 1994.
Average customer rating:
- great band delivers a great recording.
- This is a fantastic group
- The "Blair Witch" of cd's
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Setting the Woods on Fire
The Walkabouts
Manufacturer: Glitterhouse
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000000SYW
Release Date: 1996-11-12 |
Tracks:
- Good Luck Morning
- Firetrap
- Bordertown
- Feeling No Pain
- Old Crow
- Almost Wisdom
- Sand & Gravel
- Nightdrive
- Hole In The Mountain
- Pass Me On Over
- Up In The Graveyard
- Promised
Amazon.com
This stalwart Northwestern quartet stands apart from the pack thanks to the wide-ranging keyboards of Glenn Slater and the plaintive/gruff vocal poles held by Carla Torgerson and lyricist Chris Eckman. While Setting the Woods on Fire's disposition in pensive and vaguely ominous throughout, there's a full range of material to be found here. "Sand and Gravel" is a somber and resolute tune with a stately vocal by Torgerson. Eckman steps to the fore on "Old Crow," a Exile On Main Street-like rocker with Slater making like Nicky Hopkins on the keys while Eckman whips slide guitar runs across the muck like Keith Richards's Yank cousin. "Hole in the Mountain" brings the two voices together over chugging Stones beat and brass from guests the Tiny Hat Orchestra Horns. --Steven Stolder
Album Description
Setting the Woods on Fire ranks among the Walkabouts' most rock-based efforts. A sweeping, stately record, it owes a great deal to the Stones' Exile on Main St. Digipak. Sub Pop. 1994.
Customer Reviews:
great band delivers a great recording........2007-02-25
i love the walkabouts entire discography, but this is one of my three favorites. intense, dramatic songs, driven by lots of pulsing forward driving rhythm. chris eckman and carla torgerson sing with power and passion, and eckman's great guitar playing is very prominently on display throughout this album. more rock and roll fireworks in general to be found here than on most of their other discs. a great place to start with this band if you have yet to hear them. if you are already a fan, you can't go wrong with this one.
This is a fantastic group.......1999-08-07
"Hole in the Mountain" beats anything on Exile on Main Street. Holy moly does it cook! Please see my comments on New West Motel for my overall assessment of this great American band.
The "Blair Witch" of cd's.......1999-08-03
Arguably one of the greatest records ever made by an American rock band, without a doubt one of the eeriest. Previous Walkabouts albums skirted around the dark twistedness of rural America but never dove into those murky waters they way they do here. Fire is the lyrical metaphor that recurs throughout the songs, from the purifying flames of the revenge drama "Firetrap," to the nuclear holocaust of "Hole in the Mountain." Musically, the work recalls powerful guitar jangle bands like True West and the Dream Syndicate, with organ adding an especially macabre touch throughout. Chris Eckman's allusive imagery is gripping from start to finish, from the last-chance desperation of "Good Luck Morning," to the rapt, Siouxsie-esque horror of "Nightdrive," to the touching, steel-guitar driven "Promised." This is one of those rare albums where there literally isn't one weak track. If "Twin Peaks," the novels of Russell Banks or the music of darkly literate bands like X ever struck you, you need to get this record.
Average customer rating:
- great band delivers a great recording.
- This is a fantastic group
- The "Blair Witch" of cd's
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Setting the Woods on Fire
The Walkabouts
Manufacturer: Glitterhouse
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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- New West Motel
- Ended Up a Stranger
- Satisfied Mind
ASIN: B000024PB2
Release Date: 2001-02-09 |
Tracks:
- Good Luck Morning
- Firetrap
- Bordertown
- Feeling No Pain
- Old Crow
- Almost Wisdom
- Sand & Gravel
- Nightdrive
- Hole in the Mountain
- Pass Me on Over
- Up in the Graveyard
- Promised
Amazon.com
This stalwart Northwestern quartet stands apart from the pack thanks to the wide-ranging keyboards of Glenn Slater and the plaintive/gruff vocal poles held by Carla Torgerson and lyricist Chris Eckman. While Setting the Woods on Fire's disposition in pensive and vaguely ominous throughout, there's a full range of material to be found here. "Sand and Gravel" is a somber and resolute tune with a stately vocal by Torgerson. Eckman steps to the fore on "Old Crow," a Exile On Main Street-like rocker with Slater making like Nicky Hopkins on the keys while Eckman whips slide guitar runs across the muck like Keith Richards's Yank cousin. "Hole in the Mountain" brings the two voices together over chugging Stones beat and brass from guests the Tiny Hat Orchestra Horns. --Steven Stolder
Album Description
Setting the Woods on Fire ranks among the Walkabouts' most rock-based efforts. A sweeping, stately record, it owes a great deal to the Stones' Exile on Main St. Digipak. Sub Pop. 1994.
Customer Reviews:
great band delivers a great recording........2007-02-25
i love the walkabouts entire discography, but this is one of my three favorites. intense, dramatic songs, driven by lots of pulsing forward driving rhythm. chris eckman and carla torgerson sing with power and passion, and eckman's great guitar playing is very prominently on display throughout this album. more rock and roll fireworks in general to be found here than on most of their other discs. a great place to start with this band if you have yet to hear them. if you are already a fan, you can't go wrong with this one.
This is a fantastic group.......1999-08-07
"Hole in the Mountain" beats anything on Exile on Main Street. Holy moly does it cook! Please see my comments on New West Motel for my overall assessment of this great American band.
The "Blair Witch" of cd's.......1999-08-03
Arguably one of the greatest records ever made by an American rock band, without a doubt one of the eeriest. Previous Walkabouts albums skirted around the dark twistedness of rural America but never dove into those murky waters they way they do here. Fire is the lyrical metaphor that recurs throughout the songs, from the purifying flames of the revenge drama "Firetrap," to the nuclear holocaust of "Hole in the Mountain." Musically, the work recalls powerful guitar jangle bands like True West and the Dream Syndicate, with organ adding an especially macabre touch throughout. Chris Eckman's allusive imagery is gripping from start to finish, from the last-chance desperation of "Good Luck Morning," to the rapt, Siouxsie-esque horror of "Nightdrive," to the touching, steel-guitar driven "Promised." This is one of those rare albums where there literally isn't one weak track. If "Twin Peaks," the novels of Russell Banks or the music of darkly literate bands like X ever struck you, you need to get this record.
Average customer rating:
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Setting the Woods on Fire
The Walkabouts
Manufacturer: Glitterhouse
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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- Good Luck Morning
- Firetrap
- Bordertown
- Feeling No Pain
- Old Crow
- Almost Wisdom
- Sand & Gravel
- Nightdrive
- Hole in the Mountain
- Pass Me on Over
- Up in the Graveyard
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