The Rural Alberta Advantage [myspace] is a swell band. In my world, you don't get music unless someone else puts it on a website and you download that music. Through this piecemeal method of picking up songs one by one off of the blogs that we visit - some of which you can see to the right of this post - I have managed to find almost all of Hometowns, the RAA's first full-length album. When you consider that my IPod is filled with individual songs from 2000 different albums this is actually quite a feat. And what's more, the band actually deserves the distinction.
We've featured their songs multiple times on the show before and sometimes they've appeared as my song of the week. The band delivers their typical standard of music once again with this song. At just under 2 minutes, Four Night Rider falls a little short of the usual length for their songs, but it's a hell of a song. Lead singer Paul Banwatt has a voice that is very well suited to this type of music. It's clear, it's heartfelt and he rocks the hell out of this song. They are a good band.
*update! - Helpful reader Jen informs me that Nils Edenloff is the lead singer, not Paul, who is the drummer. Thank you, Jen. Thank you for teaching me humility.
