Watch: Hurray for the Riff Raff's "The Body Electric"
 

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After its February debut, Hurray for the Riff Raff's Small Town Heroes has been an album I've turned to again, and again, and has come to define much of 2014 ? finding hope in the hopelessness and light in the dark, and finding and raising up important voices and stories before they're lost. From the title track's cast of runaways to the doo-wop prayer for lives lost on "St. Roch Blues," singer-songwriter Alynda Lee Segarra writes and sings with a quiet anger and urgency, channeling frustration, hurt and hope all at once in smoldering Americana ballads ? it's no wonder NPR just called album standout "The Body Electric" the political folk song of the year (not to mention American Songwriter also named it*song of the year).? [ Read more ]

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