1. Ignition
2. I’m a Roadhammer
3. Overdrive
4. Keep On Truckin’
5. Girl On The Billboard
6. Heart With Four Wheel Drive
7. East Bound And Down
8. Call It A Day
9. Nashville Bound
10. Willin’
11. The Hammer Goin’ Down
12. I’m A Road Hammer (reprise)
13. Flat Tires (Bloopers, Outtakes ’n Such)
14. Absolutely Nothing
Total time: 48:26
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The Road Hammers
The Road Hammers
Airstrip Music
The sound of mandolins, banjos and harmonicas mingling with guitars, bass and drums is in short supply, but Canada’s Road Hammers aim to fill that void.
Led by last year’s Canadian Country Music Association male singer of the year, the group drags trucking music kicking and screaming into the new millennium.
Jason McCoy, known as more of a traditional country artist, says he conceived the project as a one-off tribute to the genre. But it did better than expected, going to No. 1 in the Great White North and garnering six CCMA awards. Now it’s been released in the United States, where it’s starting to catch on as well.
Boasting a sound incorporating blues and classic Southern rock, the album mixes truck-driving tunes through the years (Del Reeves’ “Girl on the Billboard,” Jerry Reed’s “Eastbound and Down,” Lowell George’s “Willin’ ” and Chris Knight’s “Hammer Goin’ Down”) with strong original material.
The title opener, for instance, is a catchy number featuring in-your-face lead guitar, hard-driving drums and choice three-way-harmony on the choruses, punctuated by a synchronized guitar-guitar-harmonica attack. And the disc never lets down from there.
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