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Hardest Walk, The

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01
Truth or Consequences
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Downtown Paranoia Blues
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Crying Out Loud (Tears of Joy)
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Crooked Crown
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Sweet and Easy
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Dark Horses
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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White Jazz
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Good Feeling
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Let Me Down
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Mean Ol' Toledo
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Loup Garou
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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True to Zou Zou
Artist: The Soledad Brothers
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Album Information

Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 60:04

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They Say All Music Guide

The Soledad Brothers’ fifth album, The Hardest Walk, opens with “Truth or Consequences,” a solid and gloriously raunchy slice of blues-shot rock & roll that recalls the Rolling Stones in their Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St. glory days with its gutsy guitar lines and horn accents. But the Soledad Brothers don’t seem to be channeling the sound of the Stones so much as their approach on The Hardest Walk. Like those abovementioned albums, The Hardest Walk isn’t afraid to make with the rock, and with the band expanded to a quartet for these sessions with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Dechman, songs like “Crooked Crown” and “Good Feeling” are rich and full bodied without sounding cluttered or losing the spaces around the notes. But just as the Stones found as much hard groove and hard soul in their slow and quiet numbers as the rockers, the Soledad Brothers explore the sense of dynamics they discovered on 2003′s Voice of Treason, and “Crying Out Loud (Tears of Joy),” “Let Me Down,” “True to Zou Zou,” and the title song are late-night numbers that add a potent atmosphere to the disc that straight-up guitar wail couldn’t have brought them. The Soledad Brothers have obviously learned that their musical world does not begin and end with the messed-up blues-rock of their early days, and The Hardest Walk sounds like their most satisfying offering to date. – Mark Deming

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