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Great Lake Heart Ache by Dirt Road Logic
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fave it Country Rock | Americana
12 tracks | 51 minutes
Released Jul 2006
on Embassy Hotel Records
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It’s out there….past the last darkened gas station sign, out on the dirt roads you used to drive on Friday nights, where no one could find you drinking cheap beer from cans with the stereo turned up. You have to leave the pavement, but you’ll find it.
Editorial review
Bar bands have always catered to booze, blue collars, bad luck, and badder attitudes, but their blood, sweat, and tears are almost always filtered through the reliable canon of classic rock radio. Southeastern Michigan's Dirt Road Logic's ballsy debut, the appropriately titled Great Lake Heart Ache, manages to sound both familiar enough to entice music fans who only listen to the same ten albums they bought in high school and original enough to lure unsuspecting Crooked Fingers, Steve Earle, and Drive-By Truckers fans into the fold. GLHA is essentially a thick, bluesy sandwich with all the "fixin's," a deep slice of everyman Americana with its dials turned way past ten on the harder tunes ("What's Wrong with My Baby") and its arms wrapped tight around significant others on the slower ones ("Gentlemen and Wine"). There is no thesaurus, thrift-store factory jacket, or ultra-cool hipster aesthetic required, as any astute imbiber of barfly culture knows exactly what a song titled "Hard Drinkin' Daddy" and its demonic sister, "Watch It Burn," should sound like (somewhere between the Cramps, Golden Earring's "Radar Love," and early Tom Petty). Reliable? Sure, but Dirt Road Logic aren't just playing the standards; they're writing new ones, and this handcrafted and expertly produced love letter to a small-town jukebox holding up a pitcher of thin, warm beer and a soft pack of semi-crushed cigarettes has a voice as cruel and lovely as the five bodies of water that surround it. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
“…Delivered from the gut but filtered through the brain so the punch is both physical and cerebral.”
- Kevin Reynolds, Promoter & Senior AE Clear Channel Radio Grand Rapids, MI
“Great Lake Heartache” is a new direction for the group. Never before have they just let things rip so loosely. The chemistry between Kelly and Delamater is noticeable upon first listen and never fades. The unchained rock style fuses together the themes of drinking, relationships and bucolic summer fun quite well.
Dirt Road Logic has managed to craft an album that seems to fit the members’ personalities quite well. The boys haven’t given up the hard-luck tale; they’re just telling it with a smirk and a jukebox cranking away in the background instead of flooding the beer with tears.
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