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Right on Dairyland by Day Action Band
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fave it Modern Folk | Folk Rock
12 tracks | 37 minutes
Released Nov 2005
on Captain Cape Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:14 All Comes Down to This lyrics BUY MP3 03:14 All Comes Down to This lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:14 All Comes Down to This
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:50 65 Miles lyrics BUY MP3 03:50 65 Miles lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:50 65 Miles
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:13 Fixing Everything lyrics BUY MP3 03:13 Fixing Everything lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:13 Fixing Everything
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 Untitled lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 Untitled lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 Untitled
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:21 Good to Me lyrics BUY MP3 03:21 Good to Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:21 Good to Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:23 Heartless lyrics BUY MP3 02:23 Heartless lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:23 Heartless
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:34 The Eyes in the Back of My Head lyrics BUY MP3 03:34 The Eyes in the Back of My Head lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:34 The Eyes in the Back of My Head
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:31 Know What You Know lyrics BUY MP3 02:31 Know What You Know lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:31 Know What You Know
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:59 Summer Days lyrics BUY MP3 02:59 Summer Days lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:59 Summer Days
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:05 Baby lyrics BUY MP3 03:05 Baby lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:05 Baby
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:03 Day to Get Done lyrics BUY MP3 03:03 Day to Get Done lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:03 Day to Get Done
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:49 Old Together lyrics BUY MP3 02:49 Old Together lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:49 Old Together
Neo-folk, folk rock, mellow organ tones.
Editorial review
Good things often come from woodshedding, musicians huddling together in a secluded location, free from distractions, doing nothing much except what they came there to do. Dylan and the Band certainly benefited from their time together at the legendary Big Pink house, and Traffic found a place in the country and stayed there till they had enough music to call a debut album. Songwriting brothers Matt and Nate O'Keefe of North Carolina's Day Action Band installed a studio in a small converted building adjacent to the rural house owned by novelist Matt and his novelist wife, and the next thing you know they emerged with this gratifying collection of tuneful pop-Americana. There's a refreshingly unpretentious lo-fi ambience to this homemade production that affirms the honesty and directness of the songs. Even though it rocks, this is unhurried, non-aggressive music and the deliberate avoidance of sophistication in the mix affixes it with an undeniably timeless quality. The vocals, devoid of technological augmentation, lie starkly above the instrumentation, which too is kept low-key: the old tried and proven, simple, and trusty basic guitars/bass/drums/keyboards combo. Those keyboards, the vintage organ in particular, lend a soulful touch to the O'Keefes' words, which achieve a workable balance between the literary and the folksy, taking commonplace situations and everyday emotions and making of them something not very common at all: music that feels real. ~ Jeff Tamarkin, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
From Lost At Sea:
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Day Action Band know how to package their music, wrapping their album with an agrarian image on the cover (a reaper in a field under a big sky, a few skeletal telephone wires stretching out and over). The album’s title, Right on Dairyland, evoked the rural Iowa and Wisconsin landscapes from my formative years. The band’s publicity materials made mention of a barn-like, tin-roofed outbuilding, located deep in the North Carolina woods, where the album was recorded. Shit, the band is a family operation comprised of two brothers, Matt and Nate O’Keefe, and the afore-mentioned press statement was written by Leah Stewart, Matt’s wife; it all sounded so quaint and honest and real that I was a bit unnerved.
My fears were assuaged after a few minutes of listening. Right on Dairyland is a very sweet and very solid piece of Americana and will almost certainly serve as a launching pad for whatever neo-folk classic the band releases next.
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