"Everyone has a favorite drinking album. Right now, mine is REVIVAL."
-- Seattle Weekly
"A voice to turn good girls bad...Maybe crazy but damn exciting."
-- The Village Voice
"What? You want some kind of description of the artist and his music? Just fucking listen to the guy and enjoy his prowess."
-- Frank Black a.k.a. Black Francis
"Best 50 Albums of the Year"
-- Alternative Press
"A soot-black sense of humor as biting as an underfed Rottweiler."
--Cleveland Free Times
"One of America's best -- and most underrated -- songwriters."
-- PopMatters
"REVIVAL has the immediacy of a blues album...too idiosyncratic to be summed up in one category."
-- In Pittsburgh
"The bastard child of Sinatra and Lemmy. Great epic, minimalist rock tunes with that end of the night feel."
--Random Magazine UK
"A proudly weird talent with a nervy raw appeal."
--Time Out New York
"Best Actual Gig of the Year. Very very impressive."
--Sleazegrinder UK
"Four Stars"
-- German Rolling Stone
“For all his simplicity, Reid is like nobody else.”
-- Seattle Weekly
"Possessed with the voice of a drunken wolf. Songs that roar."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Best Of Manhattan"
-- New York Press
"An unholy howl of a voice."
-- CMJ New Music Monthly
"Reduce-you-to-tears razor wit...Reid Paley ought to be a household name."
--Pittsburgh City Paper
"One of the East Coast's best-kept secrets, his wryly misanthropic schtick is all his own. Live, he is the Bill Hicks of the blues. You need to see him."
--What's On In London
"Straightforward, sarcastic, funny and gifted at putting a song together."
--New York Press
"For fans of churlish honesty and unaffected one-man shows, REVIVAL is a nonstop riot."
--San Francisco Weekly
"A jarring reminder of what rock'n'roll once was and could be again."
--The Washington Times
"Reid Paley is the kind of artist Seattle loves."
--The Stranger
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The first time I played this in front of an audience was in Berlin in the spring of 1999.
lyrics
NEVER DRINK ALONE (Reid Paley)
I’ve seen everything that I’ve wanted to see
I’ve read it in books and I’ve watched my TV
I can’t help it if you won’t listen to me
Cos I’ve said all I have to say
And it’s starting to get in the way
I’ve said everything that I’ve wanted to say
I’ve had it I’ve done it I did every day
I’ve shut out the world but it won’t go away
And I’ve seen all I wanted to see
And it’s starting to creep up on me
And I never drink alone
I’ve always got you with me
I never drink alone in a dark room
Even though I’m far from home
No I never drink alone
I’ve been everyone that I wanted to be
The wrong times were right times and nothing came free
I don’t need your forgiveness or your sympathy
And I’ve said all I have to say
And I never drink alone
I’ve always got you with me
I never drink alone in a dark room
Even though I’m far from home
No I never drink alone
Lyrics Appear by Permission
The Monkey’s Paw (BMI)
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