Wrecked

Wrecked Artist: Halfacre Gunroom
Label: Icarus Inc
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 790168351921
EAN: 0790168351921
ASIN: B0000CBL77


Release Date: 2004-07-13

Wrecked


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Tracks:

  1. Amy
  2. Dirty Yankee Punk Rock Girl #2
  3. Car Date
  4. Day Is Done
  5. Miles Away
  6. 1989
  7. Lorna
  8. Wheels Rolled North
  9. Wrecked
  10. Palisade
  11. East Memphis Girls
  12. Winter Wind

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Wrecked is worth the damage.......2004-07-14

Stripped down. A rollicking, stumbling-because-you-are running-too-fast-out-of-shear-joy leap into the part of the river that is Memphis's version of country rock. Welcome to Wrecked.
Memphis-based Halfacre Gunroom proves dirty is as fun as you always suspected it could be and, at the same time, takes the listener to the sweet, sentimental place that blue collar alt-country rock has been using as a place to crash for years. If you are a fan of the Uncle Tupelo's, Lucero's, Old 97's and maybe even Social Distortion's of this world, then you need to have this album in your CD player on your next road trip. Every good alt-country album follows one strict tenant whether it means to or not: It rumbles and rolls like the engine of Kenworth diesel hauling down the road. Wrecked hauls.
The Gunroom's first record, Wrecked finds that place where youthful naïveté regarding love and death meet a voice that is much older than and wiser than the body from which it emanates. The album bows to what I believe are the influences of greats like Graham Parsons and Johnny Cash, while also remaining true to the punk and blues strains that are simply part of living in the culture-rich Bluff City.
Basically, this is a long drawn out way to say that this is one hell of a debut album. It will hook you on the first track and keep you coming back until you get the rest of it. That is what a good record does, right?
If you are a tough sell, make sure you listen to at least three tracks - Amy, The Day is Done and Lorna. That's 15 minutes of your life you won't want back.

4 out of 5 stars Are You Unable to Articulate Your Raging Emotions?.......2004-07-14

Let Bryan Hartley do it for you.

This album is everything that rock and roll is about. Remember what Jack Black said in School of Rock, how rock is about sticking it to the man? Whoever the man may be (and in the case of this record, the man is most certainly a woman), this album tears at you with its sincerity and depth. About half the record are songs that you want to be listening to while driving with the top down, playing as loud as you think you can before blowing out your speakers. There are others, contemplative and earnest, that are best heard when alone with your emotions.

This record is sophisticated but honest. Yearning but aggressive. It is not pretensious or formatted or stylized. It is what rock and roll should be but often isn't.

Music Album:

  1. Two! Three! Four! ~ Desperado 5
  2. WCBS FM: Motown, Soul and Rock N Roll - Rock N Roll ~ Various Artists
  3. Space Ritual Sundown, Vol. 2 ~ Hawkwind
  4. Live on Stage ~ The New Riders of the Purple Sage
  5. Live in Toronto ~ Chicago
  6. Masters of the Universe ~ Hawkwind
  7. Murray The K's Holiday Revue ~ Various Artists
  8. Sufferion - Harmatia of Prudence ~ Silentium
  9. Swampsong ~ Kalmah
  10. Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin ~ Hawkwind

Music Album

Music Album

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Vietnam: The Aftermath ~ Billy Bang

It's a Beautiful Day ~ Max Groove

Battle Hymns ~ Manowar

What Good Is Grief to a God? ~ D.I.

Heart Attack ~ Krokus

Kinda Soul ~ Hanne Boel

Ocaso Otono ~ Ad Libitum

Songs to the Moon

Winds of Waimanalo ~ Makapuu Sand Band

A Change for Life ~ Ricky St. Pierre