Boys and Girls in America

Product Description ON TOUR 10/21 - 11/19 Oct 21 - Providence, RI - Lupos Heartbreak hotel Oct 22 - Boston, MA - The Roxy Oct 23 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric factory Oct 24 - Raleigh - Disco Rodeo Oct 25 - Athens - 40 Watt Oct 26 - Knoxville - Bijiou Theatre Oct 27 - Columbus - Newport Music Hall Oct 29 - Pontiac - Crofoot Ballroom Oct 30 - Chicago - Metro Oct 31 - Chicago - Metro Nov 01 - Minneapolis - State Theatre Nov 04 - Seattle - HUB Ballroom Nov 05 - Portland - Crystal Ballroom Nov 06 - San Francisco - Warfield Theatre Nov 07 - Los Angeles - The Wiltern Nov 08 - San Diego - Cane's Nov 09 - Tempe - Marquee Theatre Nov 11 - Boulder - Fox Theatre Nov 12 - Denver - Ogden Theatre Nov 13 - Lawrence - Granada Nov 14 - Austin - La Zona Rosa Nov 15 - Dallas - Palladium Nov 17 - Birmingham - Bottle Tree Annex Nov 18 - Atlanta - Variety Playhouse Nov 19 - Richmond - Toad's Place Nov 20 - Washington D.C. - 9:30 Club Nov 21 - New York - Terminal Five Amazon.com Craig Finn loves books and bars. It's not just that he pinched the title of he Hold Steady's third album from the ultimate manual for boozehounds, Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" ("Boys and Girls in America have such a sad time together"), but that every leery line of every song is crammed with the wayward poetry and passion of someone who is more familiar with the bottom of a whiskey glass than the sun. Thanks to his raucous Brooklyn band, his music--louder than its predecessors this time, with a few more ballads--also happens to make a great soundtrack for an all-night bender where broken-hearts and broken bottles become one. --Aidin Vaziri Review "...bizarrely touching and insanely original." -- Rolling Stone "One of the most convincing rock bands to emerge in recent years...unadulterated aggression and ear-splitting amps." -- Pitchfork "a raucous album rife with heavy guitar licks and more cultural references than Paul's Boutique." -- SPIN From the Artist Sounds like five guys playing music together. I’d say the less is more thing is the strength. There were a couple songs where I said, "I’m not gonna play on the first verse of this song." Some places we ended up taking some guitars out when we were mixing. This seems like it’s probably the most personal record I’ve ever heard Craig write lyrically. I speak as a fan of Craig’s. He and I never discuss his lyrics—I don’t want to because it might take some of the mystique away—I like to listen to him as much as anybody else does. There were a couple of times when we were mixing and mastering, where I was like "Wow. I’ve never heard him say that before!" -Tad Kubler, Guitar Well, Boys and Girls in America comes from Kerouac. In On the Road he says, "Boys and Girls in America have such a sad time together." The record is kind of about love and guys and girls and relationships. Most of the songs go back to that. But that’s an umbrella—you can do a lot of things within that. The songs are a little more self-contained. They don’t relate as much to each other but all go back to this one big thing. The first song "Stuck Between Stations" is about the poet John Berryman, and he had a lot of issues with love and had affairs, depression, and another song "Chips Ahoy" takes place at a horse race, but is still about a guy and a girl. I’m trying to keep challenging myself, and get it back there rather than telling this one long story. -Craig, singer
ASIN: B000HIP3X4
VSKU: DBV.B000HIP3X4.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:The Hold Steady
Binding: Audio CD
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