Artist: Hard Working Americans
Album: We're All in This Together
Bitrate: 258kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Melvin Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 155.37 megs
PlayTime: 1h 19min 52sec total
Rip Date: 2017-09-15
Store Date: 2017-08-21
Track List:
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01. Mission Accomplished 6:13
02. I Don't Have a Gun 9:14
03. Stomp and Holler 5:47
04. Roman Candles 6:06
05. Something Else 8:25
06. Ascending into Madness 5:48
07. Burn Out Shoes 6:36
08. Another Train 6:11
09. We're All in This Together 4:54
10. Is This Thing Working? 5:15
11. The High Price of Inspiration 5:06
12. Run a Mile 6:11
13. School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes 4:06
the Bell)
Release Notes:
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Though barely four years old, the Todd Snider-led jam band supergroup Hard
Working Americans have maintained a prolific output, especially for a project
that could have easily rested as a pleasant one-off. True to their name, the
roots rock sextet -- which also features members of Widespread Panic, Chris
Robinson Brotherhood, and Great American Taxi -- keep on rolling with their
fourth release, We're All in This Together, a spirited live set captured during
their tour for 2016's studio album Rest in Chaos. That Together is the band's
second concert album is a pretty clear indication of where their hearts and
strengths lie, though with such a brief history, it also reveals some of the
limitations of their repertoire. The menu of cover songs that populated both
their 2014 live release, The First Waltz, and the self-titled studio debut that
followed a year later continues to occupy real estate in their canon with four
of those tunes -- "I Don't Have a Gun," "Stomp and Holler," "Another Train," and
"Run a Mile" -- making their third appearance on an HWA album. True, in the jam
band tradition, the versions vary wildly from show to show, but it might do this
young band of old hands some good to five a few of their standards a rest -- on
record, at least -- and allow their song bank to replenish itself with fresher
fare. That said, HWA do a nice job here of continuing to expand on their hippie
road show self-mythology, adding a pair of new Snider-penned songs in the
rambling origin story title cut -- presented lyrically in the album's liner
notes as "Invocation #2" -- and the spry shuffling "Is This Thing On?" With such
a band of monster players at his side, Snider seems to be settling into his role
of frontman/hooligan preacher quite well. Closing out the set is a fairly
straightforward Southern rock rendition of Chuck Berry's early rock chestnut
"School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)." A solid-enough document of a rugged
and yes, hard-working American band, We're All in This Together reliably
delivers the goods without a lot of surprises.