(2022) Teddy and the Rough Riders - Teddy and the Rough Riders   


Review:
Over the past few years, Teddy & the Rough Riders have managed to home-record a full-length record and a few EPs on their own under the Third Man Records label while playing their fair share of bars and honky-tonks while also opening on tour for Margo Price, Jeff the Brotherhood, and Soccer Mommy. After narrowing down their best demos, they enlisted the help of the aforementioned Price to produce their eponymously named new album. The production from Price shows that she has an extremely bright future as a producer if she so wishes to veer more in that direction as she and engineer Jake Davis made an album recorded in three days for $900 dollars sound like it was recorded over months instead of days and with a hell of a lot more money too. The album flows perfectly from its downhome southern country vibes to west coast psychedelic sounds to its resonating mellow British rock. It is impossible to not catch the influence George Harrison played in the development of the bands sound. “Broken Bridges” and “Sunset” just scream something the former Beatle would have recorded on one of his solo albums. The first four songs on the album have a laid back country vibe perfect for a day floating down a lazy river stream. “Rhinestone Salute” kicks things into gear with superb pedal steel guitar playing in a quick sprint to the finish line in this short song that is destined to fill the dance floor with eager listeners ready to line dance. Fans of The Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Buffalo Springfield, and Poco will find a band that they can truly get behind in Teddy & The Rough Riders. Their most recent single “Dance Floor Blues” tackles how easy it is to become entangled in a toxic relationship. “‘Dance Floor Blues’ is exactly what it sounds like…becoming dangerously intoxicated with another person,” say Nashville-bred country-rockers Teddy and the Rough Riders of their pedal steel and phase-shifter-laden new single. “…as well as the various little sins on offer at honky-tonks around town.” Teddy & The Rough Riders new album is the perfect record that will appeal to both die-hard old school country fans and rock fans.


   


Track List:
01. Go Lucky Kind
02. Broken Bridges
03. Dance Floor Blues
04. Livin in the Woods
05. Rhinestone Salute
06. Drink Better
07. Sunset
08. Leaving Forever Again
09. Complacency
10. Bad Spot
11. Cat and Mouse
12. Hey Richard


Media Report:
Genre: country-rock
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits


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