Diamond Star Highway [Import]

Rainy Day Saints | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2006)
• Original Release Date: June 13, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Get Hip Recordings
• ASIN: B000G7R0GE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #620,625 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

From high concept to one man band and finally , a full fledged rock & roll combo. Rainy Day Saints are what’s happening! Main man Dave Swanson has surrounded himself with what they refer to in the music biz as ‘top notch talent’! The amount of hours, days, years these guys have under their collective belts is, well...it’s a lot. From the rave reviews and major airplay of the first album, "Saturday’s Haze", the anticipation is high for new RDS and ‘Diamond Star Highway’ delivers in full! From the jangly to the distorted, from the pretty to the raw, from the rocked out to the acoustic and from the earthbound to the outer space ...this new disc has it all. The influences are there, but they’re dressed up in their own way. Yeah it’s Pop....yeah it’s Powerful...yeah it’s Rock and yeah... It does Roll. So...take a ride on the ‘Diamond Star Highway’. There is no filler amongst the 11 tracks that compile the album with 9 outstanding originals and 2 covers: the best take! ever on the Dead Boys punk classic "Sonic Reducer", which they slow down making it a spooky haunting ballad and Falling James’ "Terminal Island". It’s their happening and it freaks them out!

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great pop/pscyh/rock, July 18, 2011

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This review is from: Diamond Star Highway (Audio CD)

Having seen this bad live a couple of times, I decided I really should check out their records. "Diamond Star Highway" has been in the car CD player for week, and I'm still hearing new things to make me smile--tunes, harmonies, nice simple solos. The first four tracks are the stongest start to an independent CD I've heard in a long time. This is a band that plays its own music while showing reverence for its roots. Really looking forward to hearing more.