Long Gone Dead

Rank and File | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B00078GHOI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,570 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Long Gone Dead

2. I'm an Old Old Man

3. Sound of the Rain

4. Hot Wind

5. Tell Her I Love Her

6. Saddest Girl in the World

7. Timeless Love

8. John Brown

9. Last Night I Dreamed

10. It Don't Matter

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent 80's country rock-n-roll, January 10, 2006

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JR Hercules (Somewheres, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Long Gone Dead (Audio CD)

The sharp lead guitar of Alejandro Escovedo isn't present for Rank and File's second lp, but "Long Gone Dead" is nearly as good as the debut. It's more layered than "Sundown", with some fiddles and pedal steel, but this works well within the framework of the songs. "The Sound of The Rain", Rank and File's best original song, is the album's centerpiece, but the rest, including a cover of Lefty Frizzel's "I'm An Old, Old Man", all sound fine. Stan Lynch of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is the drummer for this outing.

Rank and File would record one more album after this, for Rhino, but it was quite lame (I don't know why Collector's Choice is even releasing it, or why "Long Gone Dead" and "Sundown" aren't combined). You could tell the band knew its career was at an end when the 3rd album's acknowledgements read simply, "Thanks, to no one."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars slavery's claim was that man would own man...throw it down, John Brown!, June 21, 2007

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Pamela Middings - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Long Gone Dead (Audio CD)

Yeah, yeah, "Sundown" is just the pinnacle of awesomeness, and David Kahne knew how to get the Kinman brothers' sound to just echo and ring so wonderfully.
But this CD's really good too, despite Kahne's absence. Chip and Tony's songwriting skills are still as great as ever. The title track, "Hot Wind," "John Brown," "Sound of the Rain," "It don't matter" are especially good.

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Band, Less than Perfect Record, September 12, 2007

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shelflife - See all my reviews

This review is from: Long Gone Dead (Audio CD)

Having seen the Dils live and having watched the rebirth of the Kinman brothers as Rank and File, I always looked forward to their records. This album was a disappointment then and that still has not changed. The song writing is as good as ever. The problem is with the production. It reeks of early 80s overkill. The guitars are dressed up too much and the vocals overprocessed to the point that they sound too high. My daughter, when she heard it recently, thought Chip was a girl.