Say Goodnight to the World | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Dax Riggs |
Cover: | Say Goodnight to the World.jpg |
Released: | August 3, 2010 |
Genre: | Blues rock Alternative rock |
Length: | 35:27 |
Label: | Fat Possum[1] |
Producer: | Robbie Lee, Dax Riggs |
Prev Title: | We Sing of Only Blood or Love |
Prev Year: | 2006 |
Say Goodnight to the World is a solo album by the American singer and songwriter Dax Riggs, released in 2010.[2] [3] [4]
The Austin Chronicle called the album "gritty punk-blues", writing that "[Riggs's] gothic-noir lullabies ... are carried by a voice that still conjures the ghost of Layne Staley."[5] Spin wrote that Say Goodnight to the World "plops Sun Studios into the middle of Transylvania, with Riggs as a pensive, late-night Elvis."[6] The Washington Post wrote that the album "may be [Riggs's] best ... a darkly psychedelic exorcism."[3]
All songs were written by Riggs except "Heartbreak Hotel", originally by Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, and Elvis Presley.
The album was produced by Dax Riggs and Robbie Lee. Riggs is accompanied by the bass guitarist Kevin Fitzsimmons and drummer Charley Siess, who also toured in support of the album with lead guitarist Julian Primeaux.