

[photo courtesy of Sean Rowe]

Hurray For The Riff Raff is one of those rare bands that seem to be even better every new time you see them. We were amazed at their growth when we saw them twice last summer. Those two shows are on constant play in my listening rotation and I expect to add last Thursday’s show at Knitting Factory to the mix. Fresh off what Alynda Lee called their “magical tour”, which included an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival and a leg of the tour opening for the Alabama Shakes in large venues, the Knit show was a band at its peak having fun and playing a varied setlist. We’ve spoken in previous posts about the brilliant 2012 release Look Out Mama, definitely a sleeper for those disconnected with today’s Americana music but a unanimous best-of for those who were paying attention. Hurray For The Riff are currently working on a new album which is expected in the Fall and the Knit show also saw the performance of what we believe were nine new songs that will eventually see release on that new record. Of those new songs, we’d heard a few at prior shows, including “Small Town Heroes”. But this particular version of Small Town Heroes was so intense and awe inspiring that we have to stream it below.

Hurray For The Riff Raff will perform a free show in Lincoln Center at Hearst Plaza on Saturday August 10 at 1:30 pm. HFTRR will return for a full show in the Fall, venue and date to be announced by the band later today (along with full tour news).

I recorded this set with the Sennheiser cards on a stand at the front corner of the soundboard and mixed with an excellent feed provided by the Knit’s FOH Rob. The sound quality is superb. Enjoy!

Stream “Small Town Heroes”:



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Hurray For The Riff Raff

2013-08-01

Knitting Factory

Brooklyn NY

Digital Master Recording

Soundboard + Audience Matrix

Soundboard + Sennheiser 8040 Cardioids > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, mixdown, EQ, set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and tagging via Foobar)

Recorded and Produced by nyctaper

2013-08-04

Setlist:

[Total Time 1:15:22]

01 Old San Francisco Bay Blues

02 Blue Ridge Mountain

03 Instrumental

04 Look Out Mama

05 Slow Walk

06 I Know Its Wrong

07 The End of the Line

08 [banter – murder ballads]

09 The Body Electric

10 [banter – rock camp for girls]

11 Small Town Heroes

12 Crash on the Highway

13 Lake of Fire

14 No One Else But You

15 St. Roch Blues

16 Everybody’s Talkin [Fred Neil]

17 [band introductions]

18 Little Black Star

19 [encore break]

20 Daniella

21 Ode to John and Yoko

22 Be My Baby [Ronettes]

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