Setting the Woods on Fire

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Setting the Woods on Fire
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Studio album by
Released1994
Recordedby Ed Brooks at Ironwood Studios & Hanzek Audio, January/February 1994, mixed at Robert Lang Studios
Genre Rock [1]
Length63:12
Label Creative Man/Cargo [2]
Producer Ed Brooks, the Walkabouts
The Walkabouts chronology
Satisfied Mind
(1993)
Setting the Woods on Fire
(1994)
Devil's Road
(1996)

Setting the Woods on Fire is a studio album by the Walkabouts. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Calgary Herald B+ [4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Jason Ankeny, for AllMusic, wrote: "A sweeping, stately record, it owes a great deal to the Stones' Exile on Main St. " [1] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "a strong collection of original material." [5] 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." [6] Uncut deemed it an "underselling classic" that "captures perfectly [the band's] haunted experimentalism." [7] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that the album's "disposition is pensive and vaguely ominous throughout." [8]

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

Additional musicians

Tiny Hot Orchestra Horns

horn section on track 9

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  2. "WALKABOUTS' EUROPEAN SUCCESSES WIN IT SOME RESPECT BACK AT HOME". Seattle Post-Intelligencer: 9. 13 Jan 1995.
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