The Long Ryders April Tour Round Up - Sid Griffin - The Official Website

The Long Ryders April Tour Round Up

The Long Ryders play Live in 2019 - photograph Tom Gold - Goldwood Images

The Long Ryders play Live in 2019 – photograph Tom Gold – Goldwood Images

The Long Ryders sincerely wish to thank every fan who attended a concert this April (and announce we are back with three UK shows in July and one Spanish festival that same month)!

Thanks, folks, for making April so lovely for us.

The band played a storming set of shows across the UK, the Netherlands and Italy playing songs from Psychedelic Country Soul live for the very first time…

Black Country Rock, April 2019m-

Greenville joined the list of esteemed Ryder’s rockers and Tom Stevens sang a beautiful Bells of August, one of the few occasions that the pace eased up. A gorgeous cover of Tom Petty’s Walls was an encore highlight and one can imagine the Long Ryders helping to fill a TP sized hole in the musical landscape.

Brighton and Hove News, April 2019 –

I last saw The Long Ryders at the Concorde 2 in Brighton three years ago, and I was pleased to find that age had not withered them then, and neither has it now. Indeed, opener ‘Gunslinger Man’ is essayed with a ferocity which virtually peels the paint from the walls…

…The new album is well represented with six songs in the twenty song set. The punchier songs from the album have been selected, and they dovetail into the set alongside the older material nicely. However, with so many new songs some old favourites fall by the wayside. So there’s no ‘Run Dusty Run’ or ‘Ivory Tower’, but room is found for ‘Capturing The Flag’, ‘Final Wild Son’, ‘You Just Can’t Ride The Boxcars Anymore’, ‘Lights Of Downtown’ and final encore ‘Looking For Lewis And Clark’.

Americana UK, April 2019 –

The new material being so strong, undoubtedly compensated for the absence of crowd-pleasing live favourites such as ‘Ivory Tower’ and ‘Run Dusty Run’. This, along with the trust and respect that the band’s following have for The Long Ryders, ensured that the new material was well received throughout…

…The 2017 single ‘Bear in the Woods’ was the highlight of the remaining new songs, whilst ‘Capturing the Flag’, ‘I Had a Dream’ and ‘The Lights of Downtown’ prompted the biggest crowd response to the old favourites. Two encores were played. The title track of the new album ‘Psychedelic Country Soul’ was listened to with quiet respect before a barnstorming finale of ‘Looking For Lewis and Clark’, where the crowd bellowed out the choruses.

Stephen took time out to serenade travelers at St Pancras International as the band traveled from the UK to continue the tour

News also came through while the band was on the road that Psychedelic Country Soul was featured in Rolling Stone as one of David ‘Fricke’s Picks.’ Naming the album as one of his top three releases of 2019 so far…

Rolling Stone, April 2019 –

“I heard something once/And I’ve chased it ever since,” Griffin declares in “The Sound,” a galloping homage to mission affirmed across the album in the opening rush of “Greenville,” the all-for-one march “All Aboard” and the bracing wonder in “What the Eagle Sees.” The title track is a proper trip, dissolving at the end like a prairie-wind variation on the Rolling Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request. And there is one cover, Tom Petty’s “Walls,” done as if the Byrds had cut it first for 1966’s Fifth Dimension and dedicated to the late composer: “If modern music had a friend, he was it.” The Ryders are back to pick up their share of that load.

Further reviews of the bands April 2019 shows included this fine piece on the show at John Dee in Oslo from musikknyheter.no, A great set of photos from the Paard show on their own website at paard.nl and finaly this great write up of the Auditorium Toscanini show in Italy from rootshighway.it.

April was also bookended with the news that Psychedelic Country Soul was chosen as Album of the Month on the Across The Universal Soundscape website and then that the double LP of Psychedelic Country Soul had been the best selling release for Cherry Red in 2019 so far.

The Long Ryders Live, April 2019 - Photograph Tom Gold - Goldwood Images

The Long Ryders Live, April 2019 – Photograph Tom Gold – Goldwood Images

“The band hopes anyone who missed them in April can see them in July and once more get hip to the New Breed, baby! With love and Psychedelic Country Soul to each of you, take care, Sid, Tom, Stephen and Greg The Drummer.”

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