The Re-Mains
The Re-Mains
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About The Re-Mains
“I was in Wagga Wagga - The City of Crows / Dying from scabies and a fucked up nose Woke up / Gave the world the finger / Hit the road / Become a folk sin-ger” (from Folk Singer Blues (M. Daley) on The Re-Mains album Thank You For Supporting Country Rock ‘n’ Roll and live on Love’s Last Stand) With these lyrics, you can hear the renegade attitude driving The Re-Mains to the mantle of Australia’s hardest working Country Rock ‘n’ Roll band. Hell, they’re probably Australia’s hardest working band, period, with a relentless touring schedule that includes their annual August haul across the Northern Territory. The Re-Mains make music that aches for the dirt highways and the sounds crackling across the radio dial, playing places no other band will go with songs that people say they can hear their lives in. You can hear intelligence, grit and a listener’s ear for a tale in their earthy songs. You can hear the way inner city rock ‘n’ roll and wide open country is mixed into an incendiary device – both tight and pleasingly loose – in The Re-Mains’ sure hands. You can listen to Love’s Last Stand – their first live record commemorating their final show with founding banjo-shredder Uncle Burnin’ Love and young bassplayer Sam The Pup, and hear this road-tested gang working up an honest sweat at the coalface – Keepin’ It Steel. Tracks like Folk Singer Blues, Hot Blood, Stoked and Thank You Mr. Ellis (name checking John Ralston Saul) show the band at their vital, rockin’ best, while a dark and epic vision comes through in tracks like Endless Mystery, Ballad of a Wrong’un and Email. Capturing the swagger, grace and muscle earned over hundreds and hundreds of gigs, Love’s Last Stand holds up as an essential live document in the evolution of Country Rock ‘n’ Roll – The Re-Mains way. Album Personnel Mick Daley – singin’, guitars / Leigh Ivin – steel and electric guitars, back up singin’ / Shaun Butcher – banjo-shreddin’, some singin’ / Mick Ward – drums, back up singin’ / Sam Martin – bass, back up singin’ / Gleny Rae Virus – fiddle Review “Country Rock & Roll hellraisers the Re-Mains hit their boozy, bluesy, slide-and-banjo-laced straps on this live album, combining a rootsy twang with inner-city smarts…” 4 stars - Rolling Stone
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