Drag the River – Hobo’s Demos – Review

Drag the River

Hobo’s Demos (Upland)
by Scott Hefflon

Two parts ALL (Chad Price and Karl Alvarez), two parts Armchair Martian (Jon Snodgrass and Paul Rucker), Drag the River is talented punkpop songwriters showing their joy for Country music. Anyone who’s dug beneath the singles for either band knows Chad and Jon are talented and have always had a thing for hard-luck roots melodies and vibes, so here’s what it’d sound like if their regular bands didn’t tell them to cut it the fuck out. Wide open spaces to be thoughtfully depressed in, subdued guitarwork like a barn door creaking in the distance, the occasional lumbering of a beat-up truck rumbling down a dirt road…
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