Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads & Fugitive Songs
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| Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads & Fugitive Songs | ||||
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| Released | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 68:27 | |||
| Label | redFLY | |||
| Producer | Stan Ridgway | |||
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Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads & Fugitive Songs is an album by Stan Ridgway.[1][2] It was released in 2004 through redFLY Records.[3]
After the deaths of two former Wall of Voodoo bandmates, Ridgway wrote "Talkin' Wall of Voodoo Blues Pt. 1", a reflection on the band's history.[4]
Critical reception
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [6] |
PopMatters called the album "full of the sort of lyrical darkness that's been a hallmark of Ridgway's material since the get-go."[7] The Monterey County Weekly wrote: "To accompany his off-kilter lyrics, Ridgway plays music that evokes country blues artists, Tom Waits and arty electronic bands from the ‘80s. Throughout the album, strange instruments accentuate Ridgway’s surreal stories."[8] The Stranger wrote that "the dusty, atmospheric songs of Snakebite bristle and twitch with stringed instruments."[3] The Times of Northwest Indiana called it "perhaps [Ridgway's] finest overall collection to date," writing that "like the best of Ridgway's eclectic oeuvre, the 16 songs nestled into this 'Three Act' album are musical vignettes populated by a twisted cast of darkly-hue characters most everyone can relate to in some way."[9]
