Hurray for the Riff Raff are the sound of New Orleans’ ‘new buskers’ ie. the young generation of musicians who’ve come to the city and absorbed the age old musical traditions and added their own modern twist. If you read up about HFTRR online there are stories of frontwoman Alynda Lee Segarra leaving New York at the tender age of 17 and ‘hopping freight trains’… not believing Wikipedia on this one we put it to her and fiddle player and drummer Josi and lo and behold – that’s exactly what they did. Only in America, hey? Listen in for track snippets from the album and what life could be like in New Orleans… trust us, it sounds dreamy.
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