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Acclaimed percussive folk-rock trio The Rural Alberta Advantage (The RAA) return today with a new single, “Plague Dogs” via Saddle Creek/Paper Bag Records, in advance of upcoming U.S. tour dates kicking off February 23 in Chicago, with support from Georgia Harmer [all dates below]. A video for “Plague Dogs” premiered earlier today via FLOOD. Watch + share via YouTube. |
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Discussing “Plague Dogs”, guitarist/vocalist Nils Edenloff shared , “Being a child of the 80’s the movie ‘Watership Down’ was long ago seared into my brain, and it was in 2019 that I came across one of Richard Adams’ other novels ‘Plague Dogs’. Having read ‘Watership Down’ and ‘Shardick’ when I first moved to Toronto, I found myself drawn to ‘Plague Dogs’, and found the title creeping into a song we were playing around with in early 2020. |
The song doesn’t end up following the events of the novel in any way, but it underscores the specific time frame that we started to work on this song. The feelings of dread, uncertainty and isolation that I felt while reading the novel, along with the eerily similar feelings around early on in the pandemic are so tightly coupled with this song that it all feels like one for me.”
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The upcoming U.S. tour includes a few rescheduled performances, along with new markets the band has not hit in some years. Banwatt, Edenloff and Cole will bring their thundering drums, hammered keys, furious acoustics and crystalline harmonies back to the fans, as they continue to roadtest new music in the works.
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Tour Dates [TICKETS]: |
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02/23 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall 02/24 – Milwaukee, WI @ Shank Hall 02/25 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Café 02/26 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown 02/28 – Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive 03/02 – Kansas City, MO @ recordBar 03/03 – St. Louis, MO @ Old Rock House 03/04 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi 03/22 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall 03/23 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom 03/24 – Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studios 03/25 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s 03/27 – Washington DC @ Songbyrd 03/28 – Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall 03/29 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall 03/31 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom 04/01 – Detroit, MI @ El Club 04/02 – London, ON @ Rum Runners 06/16 – Beaumont, AB @ Beaumont Blues & Roots 07/06 – Calgary, AB @ Wildhorse Saloon Stampede Party |
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