The confinements isolated most of us, but managed to reunite the members of Yesterday’s Ring, the country-folk project that emerged from the left butt of the legendary punk group The Sainte Catherines, which had been dormant for more than ten years. Warm, but nostalgic reunion: the ten original songs (plus a magnificent re-reading, Sufjan Stevens style, of Rainy Day of American Steel!) are an opportunity to recall memories of tours, for example on My Best Western, with the essential participation of Margaret Tracteur on the banjo. On the moving country ballad mama’s lil sis, it’s the pedal steel of Joe Grass that works miracles, rocking the voices of guest Felicity Hamer (United Steel Workers of Montreal) and leader Hugo Mudie, whose voice, one would dare say, improves with age. Shortly after, the old punk reflexes reappear to shake I Don’t Think So, London Girls Band and the title song, a reflection on the weight of the years on these former unrepentant revelers who have now calmed down…
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