Artist......: The Believers
Album.......: Crashyertown
Source......: CD
Label.......: Bona Fide
Genre.......: Rock
Tracks......: 11
Bitrate.....: 990 kbps avg
Playtime....: 00:46:48 (347.MB)
Rls date....: 2025-12-24
Store date..: 2005-04-12
Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
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01 Railroad Spikes & Shotgun Shells 4:21
02 Get Started 3:28
03 Crashyertown 4:17
04 Subterranean Homesick Blues 2:56
05 Good Days 3:52
06 Jordan 4:44
07 That's Alright 4:29
08 Highway Song 3:38
09 Nobody's Business 3:41
10 Long Way To Heaven 5:08
11 Fast Train 6:14
Cut from the same cloth as icons like Steve Earle, Bruce Springsteen,
Lucinda Williams, and Kasey Chambers, Seattle's Believers are steered by
the duo of Craig Aspen and Cynthia Frazzini. Their sophomore album,
Crashyertown is a great mixture of roadside rock & roll and heartland
country helped by an array of talents, including pedal steel man Dan Tyack
of Asleep at the Wheel fame, producer/organist/drummer Steve Adamek, and
bassist Garey Shelton, plus Ranch Romance's Nova Devonie on accordion and
the infamous Bad Livers frontman Danny Barnes on banjo. Launched by the
full-bodied, Americana-laced rocker "Railroad Spikes & Shotgun Shells," the
disc holds some of the richest arrangements the alternative country genre's
seen in a dawn's age. Songs like the winning title track -- emotively
conveyed by Aspen -- and a cover of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick
Blues" assert that notion, but even when they tone it down a bit -- like
with the subdued "That's Alright" -- these tunes never lose hold of their
harmony laden strengths. When Frazzini takes lead, as she does about
one-third of the time, it's clear she is well schooled in the classics
(think Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, and the aforementioned) as evidenced by
weepers like "Get Started" and the shimmering, heart-wrenching "Long Way to
Heaven." Regardless of who's out in front, the Believers rarely falter on
these 11 songs.