[photo courtesy of Tilebreaker – full set here]
Its been a couple of years since we last saw New Orleans’ Hurray For The Riff Raff. While band leader Alynda Lee was born in the raised in the Bronx, over the last three years the band has not come north enough for us to get a chance to see them. In the interim, they released a couple of albums and made an appearance on HBO’s award winning show Tremé. But nearly three years to the day since HFTRR played a show we produced at Monster Island, they triumphantly returned to NYC in support of the band’s brilliant new album Look Out Mama. The show at Mercury Lounge on Friday night was tight, energetic and driven. Hurray For The Riff Raff is a more mature and confident band and the music has evolved — Alynda’s americana’s influences have been fleshed out and we can now hear everything from dixieland to surf rock. At Mercury, the band worked through a setlist that included some of the new album (we’re streaming “What’s Wrong With Me”), but also three new or unreleased songs, and a superb cover of “Time Is On My Side”, that veered more towards the Irma Thomas version and less to the Stones. “Time” also featured Alynda’s vocals chops and the band’s ability to let loose and have some rip roaring fun. Hurray For The Riff Raff have finished their current tour, but will return to the road for a tour of the UK later this Summer.
I recorded this set with the Sennheiser cards mounted on a stand at the front of the soundboard and mixed with a board feed. The sound quality is excellent. Enjoy!
Stream “What’s Wrong With Me”:
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/H1208Hurray0022/09.%20What%27s%20Wrong%20With%20Me.mp3]
Stream “Time Is On My Side [Irma Thomas cover]”
[audio:http://www.nyctaper.com/H1208Hurray0022/12.%20Time%20Is%20On%20My%20Side%20(Irma%20Thomas).mp3]
Direct download of complete show in MP3 files (HERE)
Download the Complete show in FLAC [HERE].
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Hurray For The Riff Raff
2012-06-15
Mercury Lounge
New York, NY USA
Digital Master Recording
Soundboard + Audience Matrix
Soundboard + Sennheiser MKH-8040s > Edirol R-44 (Oade Concert Mod) > 2 x 24bit 48kHz wav files > Soundforge (level adjustments, set fades, downsample) > CDWave 1.95 > (tracking) > TLH > flac (320 MP3 and Tagging via Foobar)
Recorded and Produced
by nyctaper
2012-06-17
Setlist:
[Total Time 44:56]
01 Little Black Star
02 [banter]
03 Look Out Mama
04 Slow Walk
05 End of the Line
06 Just A Heart
07 Take Me
08 Small Town Heroes
09 What’s Wrong With Me
10 Lake Of Fire
11 The St. Roch Blues
12 Time Is On My Side (Irma Thomas)
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I really enjoyed this post.
Do you know where I can get a CD of “My Dearest Darkest Neighbors” a cd of covers by HCTRR
Euclid Records in New Orleans and St. Louis have the last 125 (probably less now) copies of “My Dearest Darkest Neighbor”. You can order online.
Funny you mention that – I just bought them recently!