The Best of the Long Ryders
Released: Sep 14, 2004
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Released: Sep 14, 2004
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Solid is the word that springs to mind for this au courant collection from the Long Ryders' mid-'80s heyday. It's a loaded word, often used to camouflage reservations, but here it's a...
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Anthology
Released: Jul 21, 1998
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Released: Jul 21, 1998
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The Long Ryders were one of the greatest bands to come out of L.A. during the 1980s. The band combined rootsy influences such as Gram Parsons and Buffalo Springfield with an unlikely punk...
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Two Fisted Tales - BONUS TRACKS
Released: 1996
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Released: 1996
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Two Fisted Tales, the last album by the Long Ryders, pulls together all the various elements that had distinguished them from the rest of the jangly, '60s revisionist rock bands of the mid-'80s....
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The State of Our Union - BONUS TRACKS
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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The Long Ryders kicked off their major label debut, State of Our Union, with one of their most anthemic and most explicitly political songs, "Looking for Lewis and Clark," and that tune set...
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Live in New York City
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There ought to be more live albums like this -- the Long Ryders were among the finest bands in the early 1980s "paisley underground" scene, but they only left behind three good LPs in their...
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Metallic B.O.
Released: 1989
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Released: 1989
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The Long Ryders were one of the finest retro/roots bands to emerge from the U.S. in the 1980s. Their recorded legacy on Island and Frontier easily bears this out. When the Ryders disbanded in 1988,...
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The 10-5-60/Native Sons
Released: 1992
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Released: 1992
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An early-'90s CD gathering 1983's 10-5-60 EP and the following year's Native Sons, both long out of print on vinyl by that time, this disc is all the Long Ryders one really needs. Singer/songwriter...
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10-5-60
Released: 1983
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Released: 1983
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It didn't take a genius to figure out that Sid Griffin and his fellow Long Ryders loved the Byrds with all their hearts, but they rarely made their affection quite so obvious as on their debut EP,...
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