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News:
There's
a group
on Facebook for Right Or Happy!
This
news is a little old now, but Ryan
Adams posted his top albums of 2011 on Facebook in December
and Zeitgeist/The Reivers' "Translate Slowly" got
a nice review (despite the error crediting Kelly Bell with
bass on the album) as one of his longtime favorite, formative
albums:
Dec. 21:
"#5 DRA [note- "DRA" stands for David Ryan
Adams]-Album of the Year.... The Reivers..."Translate
Slowly"....... The Reivers spin some kind of hypnotic
weave of two guitar patchwork that instantly draws you in
and settles you. They share two vocalists, John Croslin- like
Lou Reed if he were from Texas and probably enjoying a stoney
afternoon drive to a bowling alley someplace in Texas, and
Kim Longacre- endlessly cool in her observations and sexy
in her verse without even trying (don't get me started-)...
this is a band the world didn't deserve. They could write
entire records about houses and probably did and you would
cry like a little baby. Kelly Bell plays bass on this ( i
think ) and the steady and rad Garrett Williams played the
drums.
I think pretty much my first three years making music was
trying to emulate the cool and laid back vibe of this band.
When they went for excitement it was still so believable and
the melodies and the rushing tones would drag me in. This
record starts and it sounds like you entered a surprise party.
Never leave home without it. Endlessly great."
Upcoming
Shows:
- None
currently scheduled.
See the 2011 archive
and 2010 archive for info. on
recent shows.
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The
band has been in the studio recording off and on, but there's
no word on any completion date for the album.
There
are new official Reivers
shirts for sale - there are still some left. If you're
interested in getting one, send an email to kickwoodmusic(at)gmail.com
with the size you want. They're $20 each, including shipping
in the continental U.S. (more elsewhere).
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Quick
Links:
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Brief
Summary of the Last 20 Years (Or, What Have
The Reivers Been Up To Since They Broke Up in 1991?):
All the
band members, to some degree, have been involved in music
since the band called it quits originally. John Croslin, especially,
has stayed in the music world as a very prolific producer
and engineer and also co-founded a band called Fire Marshals
of Bethlehem. Cindy Toth has played in a variety of Austin
bands, while Kim Longacre and Garrett Williams have only sporadically
recorded over the years. More detail is available in the members'
individual discographies on this site:
-John Croslin
-Kim Longacre
-Cindy Toth
-Garrett Williams
In 2001
Kim, Cindy, and Garrett played together as part of the ad-hoc
band 86'd at Austin's SXSW music conference (see News
Archive Pre-2002). The Reivers fully reunited for a performance
at John Croslin's 2002 wedding (see News
Archive 2002). The albums Saturday and End of the Day
were remastered and rereleased in 2002 with bonus tracks and
new liner notes (News
2002-2003). In February of 2008 the band reunited for
2 sold out shows in Austin and have performed occasionally
since, before adding a keyboard player (Eric Friend) and changing
their name for a second time in August of that year - this
time to Right Or Happy.
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About
The Website:
This website
was founded in April 1998. It's an unofficial website, though
the band members are aware of it and are appreciative. It
serves mainly as an archive of information about Zeitgeist,
The Reivers, and Right Or Happy and a place for news on the
musical activities of the individual band members. There is
an announcement list at Yahoogroups called StarTelegram
that is used to notify of significant updates to the website
and any other significant Reivers-related news. (The little
"Updates" link up on the top right of this page
will also tell of any website updates). There is also a Reivers
discussion list at Yahoogroups called theReivers.
This
site is non-profit. Site hosting and the domain name
are paid for out-of-pocket by the site creator/maintainer.
Please help support it by buying products of any kind through
any of the links to amazon.com
- when amazon is accessed from this site, a percentage of
any sales come back to the site and help pay for hosting and
the domain name. Thanks and sorry for the commercial!
You can also donate using paypal
if
you're feeling especially giving (any amount is appreciated!):
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