New LP BY
THE RAKERS
“THE Morality of heart transplants”
The Rakers - "The thinking man's drinking band" - from Baton Rouge, La. are proud to present their new album THE MORALITY OF HEART TRANSPLANTS on New Orleans-based Full-Tilt Records.
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The RAkers are available for interviews, gigs, q&a sessions, dinner at your house.... you name it!
Alex V. Cook: vocals, keys, steel, guitar
Lance Porter: vocals, guitar
Lewis Roussel: bass, vocals
Leon LeJeune: guitar, harmonica, foghorn
Sam Anselmo: drums
Featuring:
Dave Noe: trombone
Margaret Fowler: vocals
Rob Hudak: vocals
Produced by Alex V. Cook
Recorded 2021-2022 at Rakers HQ
Full-Tilt Records
therakers.com
Recorded in their own studio and produced by the band's singer/multi-instrumentalist Alex V. Cook, this is rock music, guitars upfront and accounted for, fleshed out by organ, pedal steel, and even a foghorn (guitarist Leon Lejeune had one.) Founder Lance Porter has written some of the strongest material of his career. Bassist/in-house luthier Lewis Roussel debuts his first tune with the band, one so good they titled the album from it. Relative newcomer Sam Anselmo (Palomino Darling, Reception is Suspected, producer of the Rakers' NUMBER FIVE) jumped on the drums to give their fanfares for the common loser a whole new energy
Here's what people are saying:
Imagine The Hold Steady style of burnished, bar room Americana with the jangle button firmly pressed and you are just about in the right musical ball park of this Baton Rouge quintet who make the best ‘lived in’ rock out there. (JanglePopHub)
Like a radio antenna picking up echoes from the landscape (Full-Tilt Records).
Moving on from their garage rock years... Here's a first impression of the band delightfully raking over the hallowed arable land tended by Green on Red - if you hanker after those days when nothing much mattered but Gas, Food, Lodging then Louisiana's The Rakers have the Morality of Heart Transplants for you to consider. (outsideleft.com)