Backyard Tire Fire, Vagabonds and Hooligans (O.L.E. Records) Good stuff from Athens and Asheville rooted Backyard Tire Fire. Now putting it down in Bloomington, IL the trio delivers a promising new record titled Vagabonds and Hooligans. You gotta love an album whose first verse reads: Instruments and cable ties and bottles on the floor / The voice of Wayne Coyne bringing back the dead / Vagabonds and hooligans are wrapping at the door / Of the house that sits on a hill inside my head. I look forward to tearing into this one some more. An album preview is available from the BTF web site. File under: alt-country, rock.
WORTH MENTION:
- Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul (Barsuk)
- Bloc Party, A Weekend In the City (Wichita)
- Apples in Stereo, New Magnetic Wonder (Yep Roc)
ALSO LOOK FOR:
Patty Griffin, Rickie Lee Jones, Ruthie Foster, Sondre Lerche
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About the author: Tom is a Design Director for Viget Labs currently living in Northern Virginia with his wife and two kids. 
February 13th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
BYTF is a great band!
March 6th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Vagabonds and Hooligans should be in everyone’s cd collection! If you ever have the opportunity to see BYTF live, take it!! It’s truly an experience.