WILL WAKEFIELD & THE CONGRESS HOTEL
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Garage rock, grunge rock, indie rock, folk-rock. The streets of Seattle have famously produced a lot of variations on a theme.
What about the theme itself? What about fiery guitar riffs, big drums and lyrics you can sing and shout along to? What about pure rock 'n' roll?
Seattle's Will Wakefield And The Congress Hotel politely raise their collective hands and answer with their new, self-titled CD. With this second studio disc, Wakefield and his band of hotshots look beyond 2012 — while simultaneously embracing an era when "well produced" didn't mean "over-produced," when chops outweighed looks, when a band called Heart became the Jet City's rock ambassadors.
The 10-track album reflects a group and songwriter/frontman who've been re-focused after the critical success of their previous CD, Apt. 306. The distinctively edgy, cynical, yet often ultimately hopeful lyrical approach that Ink19.com compared to Donald Fagen's signature remains in spades. Moreover, the music and the band creating it are more electrified than ever. The result? Thought provoking "smart rock" that gets blood pumping and rumps shaking. The all-meat, no-filler CD, which Wakefield chose to produce and engineer himself, also re-introduces the term "album oriented rock" in a very literal fashion.
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Will Wakefield And The Congress Hotel will be performing in support of their new CD throughout the year.
Track listing:
1. Dept. of Correction
2. 190 Proof
3. Your First Mistake
4. Stars Don't Shine
5. The Fire Went Out
6. What's Your Medicine
7. The Anchor
8. Rendezvous
9. A House
10. The Congress Hotel
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Rider & Stage Plot
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Will Wakefield and
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