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Released: 02/20/2010
Three years in the making! Hard-drive crashes and line-up changes couldn't stop Tom, Tim, Hugh and Rod from finally delivering the album they'd promised. All the growling and swaggering of a Staggerers set in never-before-heard clarity. We think you'll like it.
Ranging from seven to eight members any given night, the juggernaut of a celtic punk band spent the last three years establishing its rough and rowdy reputation at home through infamous St Patrick's Day performances and turbulent personnel changes. It took the eight man 2008 lineup to cement the band's status as genuine musicians, and it's this lineup which recorded the long awaited Year: Tom McSod, Timmy O'Pukerty, Hugh Liquour, Rowdy Roddy Odor, Andrew "Better Than" Shite, Josh "Turbo" Runkle, Erik McSod, and Bjart Sod.
At Fort Wayne's Ensomberoom, The Staggerers captured the thunderous wall-of-sound experience of the live set with an as-yet-unheard clarity. From Hugh's fiddle harmonies to Erik's banjo frailing, the album showcases every part used to create the band's signature mixture of Americana, Celtic, and punk
Interspersed between seven traditional songs from Ireland are tales of rebellion and woe from songwriter Tom McSod, whose storytelling lyrical style makes use of ballad and drinking song traditions to comment on the contemporary. His lyrics paint portraits of Fort Wayne's colorful characters ("I Give No Fucks") and off-color graffiti ("Kill the Liver"), but among the true tales of heartache ("High Spirits"), McSod also finds refuge in the world of comic books in "KNIFE TO THE EYE!" (a reference to Eric Powell's The Goon) and the fictional landlocked pirates of "Buckets on the Green" (a sequel to "The Maumee River Pirates" by The Sods).
Three years in the making! Hard-drive crashes and line-up changes couldn't stop Tom, Tim, Hugh and Rod from finally delivering the album they'd promised. All the growling and swaggering of a Staggerers set in never-before-heard clarity. We think you'll like it.
Ranging from seven to eight members any given night, the juggernaut of a celtic punk band spent the last three years establishing its rough and rowdy reputation at home through infamous St Patrick's Day performances and turbulent personnel changes. It took the eight man 2008 lineup to cement the band's status as genuine musicians, and it's this lineup which recorded the long awaited Year: Tom McSod, Timmy O'Pukerty, Hugh Liquour, Rowdy Roddy Odor, Andrew "Better Than" Shite, Josh "Turbo" Runkle, Erik McSod, and Bjart Sod.
At Fort Wayne's Ensomberoom, The Staggerers captured the thunderous wall-of-sound experience of the live set with an as-yet-unheard clarity. From Hugh's fiddle harmonies to Erik's banjo frailing, the album showcases every part used to create the band's signature mixture of Americana, Celtic, and punk
Interspersed between seven traditional songs from Ireland are tales of rebellion and woe from songwriter Tom McSod, whose storytelling lyrical style makes use of ballad and drinking song traditions to comment on the contemporary. His lyrics paint portraits of Fort Wayne's colorful characters ("I Give No Fucks") and off-color graffiti ("Kill the Liver"), but among the true tales of heartache ("High Spirits"), McSod also finds refuge in the world of comic books in "KNIFE TO THE EYE!" (a reference to Eric Powell's The Goon) and the fictional landlocked pirates of "Buckets on the Green" (a sequel to "The Maumee River Pirates" by The Sods).