Setting the Woods on Fire explained

Setting The Woods On Fire
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Walkabouts
Cover:	Setting The Woods On Fire.jpg
Released:	1994
Recorded:	by Ed Brooks at Ironwood Studios & Hanzek Audio, January/February 1994, mixed at Robert Lang Studios
Genre:	Alternative rock, alt country, roots rock, heartland rock
Length:	63:12
Label:	Creative Man/Cargo^[1]
Producer:	Ed Brooks & the Walkabouts
Prev Title:	Satisfied Mind
Prev Year:	1993
Next Title:	Devil's Road
Next Year:	1996

Setting The Woods On Fire is a studio album by The Walkabouts.^[2]

Critical reception

Jason Ankeny, for AllMusic, wrote: "A sweeping, stately record, it owes a great deal to the Stones' Exile on Main St." The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "a strong collection of original material." Trouser Press called it "consistently ace," writing that "strong tunes like 'Firetrap', 'Good Luck Morning' and the rousing, horn-driven 'Hole in the Mountain' [are] given a spiky, full-bodied grace."^[3] Uncut deemed it an "underselling classic" that "captures perfectly [the band's] haunted experimentalism."^[4] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that the album's "disposition is pensive and vaguely ominous throughout."^[5]

Track listing

All songs by the Walkabouts (c)1994, Fire & Skill Publishing (BMI), administrated worldwide by Bug Music Inc.

1. Good Luck Morning – 4:13
2. Firetrap – 5:39
3. Bordertown – 5:51
4. Feeling No Pain – 5:12
5. Old Crow – 4:26
6. Almost Wisdom – 4:45
7. Sand and Gravel – 6:34
8. Nightdrive – 5:38
9. Hole In The Mountain – 3:49
10. Pass Me On Over – 4:10
11. Up In The Graveyard – 6:12
12. Promised – 6:33

Performers

The Walkabouts

• Glenn Slater - piano, organ, accordion, loops
• Michael Wells - bass guitar, harmonica
• Terri Moeller - drums, percussion, backup vocals
• Carla Torgerson - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, cello
• Chris Eckman - vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, lyrics

Additional musicians

• Larry Barrett - mandolin (11,12), lap steel (4,5)
• Bruce Wirth - violin (7)
• Andrew Hare - pedal steel (12)

Tiny Hot Orchestra Horns

horn section on track 9

• Zach Permeson - trombone (9)
• Mark Condelaria - tenor sax (9)
• Marcus Membrane - trumpet (9)
• "Dutch Beef" Sout - tenor sax (9)

Notes and References

1. WALKABOUTS' EUROPEAN SUCCESSES WIN IT SOME RESPECT BACK AT HOME . Seattle Post-Intelligencer . 13 Jan 1995 . 9.
2. Web site: The Walkabouts | Biography & History. AllMusic.
3. Web site: Walkabouts . Trouser Press . 25 February 2021.
4. Web site: The Walkabouts - Watermarks: Selected Songs 1991-2001. March 31, 2003.
5. Web site: Reviews. CMJ New Music Monthly. September 25, 1995. CMJ Network, Inc.. Google Books.