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Ken Layne and the Corvids : Transcontinental
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Time ain't ever going to be what it used to be. You can aim that gun, but you can't pay enough, to fire it for free. For what you did, there's a price on your head. For what you did, you'd be better off dead.
Genre: Rock: Americana
Release Date: 2008
Transcontinental Record Label: Scrub Jay Records
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Transcontinental 3:01 $0.99
For What They Did 2:41 $0.99
Mama Now Don\'t You Cry 2:15 $0.99
Gravedigger 2:50 $0.99
I Lose Again 2:32 $0.99
Cuyamaca 5:35 $0.99
The Rotten Story of Happy MacKaye 4:54 $0.99
Rattlesnake Mountain 3:53 $0.99
Swimming Along 3:09 $0.99
Watching Over You 2:59 $0.99
Cenicero 6:07 $0.99
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Album Notes

The second album by Ken Layne and the Corvids is a weird voyage across the American West, from the Gold Rush to the impending stucco apocalypse.

From spooky acoustic folk to thrashing country-rock, "Transcontinental" is a dark and beautiful tale.

"A proper hoot ... what Cormac McCarthy would write if he had a sense of humor to go with his sense of dread, a sort of 'Blood Meridian' meets Butch & Sundance. The album's big thematic interests are the 19th century opening of the West, a love for wild and desolate places, and a recurring nervous thread of incipient violence." -- A Fool in the Forest

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