"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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I started writing this one pulling into Texarkana one night in 1999.
lyrics
SAL’S LAST ROUND (Reid Paley)
Ain’t no good reason things keep happening this way
I know what’s lost and what I’ve found
And yet I’ll turn my back
Like I was born just yesterday
Next thing I know I’m going down
Don’t push my drink away
I don’t need a helping hand to show me the way
I don’t want another chance
Don’t need another play
Not again not again not again
Don’t say it’s better standing in the light of day
I think I know my way around
Those happy endings
End up happening away
Next thing I know I’m going down
Don’t push my drink away
I don’t need a helping hand to show me the way
I don’t want another chance
Don’t need another play
Not again not again not again
Everybody’s got their reasons
Tell me happiness is free
How it’s not a kind of treason
Cos it’s all the same to me
And when it’s over I’ll have no more songs to play
And I’ll be buried in the ground
But I won’t be gone cos
I won’t really go away
Next thing I know I’m going down
Don’t push my drink away
I don’t need a helping hand to show me the way
I don’t want another chance
Don’t need another play
Not again not again not again
Lyrics Appear by Permission
The Monkey’s Paw (BMI)
All Rights Reserved
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