ARTIST: Red Rooster
TITLE: Dose
LABEL: Wondermore Records
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 79:22 min
SIZE: 107,7 MB
RIP DATE: Feb-18-2005
RELEASE DATE: Feb-01-2005

Track List:

CD1

01. Hold On Tight                              04:48
02. Sharp Dressed Man                          04:33
03. Mexico Revisited                           04:05
04. Blame The Devil                            03:13
05. The Cold Ground                            02:22
06. Drive                                      03:56
07. San Diego Skyline                          04:00
08. Broken Angel                               03:25
09. Dreams                                     05:50
10. Carry Me                                   05:33

CD2

01. Hold On Tight                              04:01
02. Mexico Revisited                           02:58
03. Carry Me                                   04:35
04. Broken Angel                               03:48
05. San Diego Skyline                          03:50
06. Drive                                      03:10
07. The Cold Ground                            03:25
08. Dreams                                     04:35
09. Sharp Dressed Man                          04:17
10. Blame The Devil                            02:58

Release Notes:

More appropriately, this album should be called
Double Dose. Red Rooster presents a potent mix of
country, blues, folk, rock and hip-hop, studio
crafted into a sly, somewhat dark sound that makes
for compelling Americana. And that's merely disc
one. The second disc plays it "homespun and open
air" as they recreate the same ten tracks for a
completely different experience. Rootsy folk-grass
tunes with Dobro, fiddle, piano, banjo, acoustic
bass and guitar are captured as natural sounds by
microphone. The band has always been an
acoustic-oriented group so the back porch folk of
disc two presents nothing unusual. The idea behind
disc one's urban treatment, though, was to build
into and around these songs, coating them with urban
paint - just enough so you could still see the hay
wagon under the graffiti. Erickson possesses a low,
dry drawl that invokes tales of love, loss and
loneliness in places near and far, accentuated with
heartbreaking harmonies through arrangements both
subtle and clever - depending on which disc you're
on.