Tao Jersey Jones
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I just watched Lightning Bolt and Tough Love. Tough Love was lot of fun with the kids dancing. Lots of infectious genuine smiles.scrappy happiness is a real solid album....3 piece band ....some heavier stuff...some acoustic....
grabbed it on vinyl.
edit: gonna throw it on here....ill check out some more ike reil another time...any suggestions
I first heard Ike on KXCI in Tucson. Check that out for UA community radio. I knew most of the DJs when I lived there. KXCI | Real People, Real Radio | Tucson's Community Radio
Back to Ike. The first song I heard was Good Work (If You Can Get It) from Hard Luck Stories. His first album, Salesmen and Racists I can listen to from start to finish. Same with Born on Fire (title track is a tribute to Chris Farley, who he grew up with and played rugby on the same team at Marquette).
There isn't an IRA song I don't like but I'm still getting into some of the deeper tracks on Junkie Faithful and We Belong to Staggering Evening, but they contain some my favorites like God and Money and It's Hard to Make Love to an American.
I like the stronger tracks from the newest release Because the Angels that has his three sons on backing vocals and all three of them sharing lead on one song.
I like his political union stuff too he did for the Workers of Wisconsin that was put on by another high school buudy, Tom Morello.
Everything is on youtube, but here's his catalogue.
Discography — Ike Reilly
www.ikereilly.com
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