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Los Angeles's Long Ryders were unabashed in revering their musical ancestors. The front cover of the country-rock quartet's debut album aped the planned photo for Buffalo Springfield's unreleased Stampede, and the group dressed in the same sort of sheepskin jackets and Nudie vests as Neil Young and Gram Parsons wore back in their heydays. They even asked ex-Byrd Gene Clark to sing with them. (Lead Ryder Sid Griffin would take his love of rock history even further by writing the first book on the life of the late country-rock pioneer Parsons. He's now a widely published music writer.) Given all that, it's easy to write the Long Ryders off as just another in a series of early- to mid-'80s West Coast groups going through a momentary "paisley revival." But the group's first two releases--an EP called 10-5-60 and their debut long-player, Native Sons--show that this was a band that could often take borrowed influences to new and exciting places, fusing punk energy and southern-rock populism with the secondhand West Coast milieu. "Tell It to the Judge on Sunday" and "Never Got to Meet the Mom," in particular, were songs strong and vibrant enough to brighten up any Springfield album. --Don Harrison

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Native Sons was the 1984 release by the Long Ryders, the founders of alt-country and cornerstone of what we now call Americana. It was a hugely influential album which Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) and Chris Robinson (Black Crowes) have both praised publicly. It was a number one Alternative/College Radio album in the USA and was the New Musical Express' number two Alternative LP chart entry only because the Smiths' Meat Is Murder was at the top spot. Acknowledged as a classic this newly remastered reissue comes with the band's previous release, the EP 10-5-60's tracks as well as some extremely rare material from the same heady years when Native Sons was new.

1. Final Wild Son
2. Still Get By
3. Ivory Tower
4. Run Dusty Run
5. (Sweet) Mental Revenge
6. Fair Game
7. Tell It To The Judge On Sunday
8. Wreck Of The 809
9. Too Close To The Light
10. Never Got To Meet The Mom
11. I Had A Dream
12. Join My Gang
13. You Don't Know What's Right, You Don't Know What's Wrong
14. 10-5-60
15. Born To Believe In You
16. The Trip
17. And She Rides
18. Time Keeps Travelling (Studio Version)
19. I Can't Hide
20. Masters Of War (First Version)
21. Still Get By (First Version - Radio Tokyo, 1982)
22. 10-5-60 (First Version - Radio Tokyo, 1982)
23. And She Rides (First Version - Radio Tokyo, 1982)
24. Too Close To The Light (Buckskin Mix - Non-LP B-Side)

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Great band. Classic album.