Biography

On February 11, Hurray for the Riff Raff will release Small Town Heroes, its debut for ATO Records. The album finds frontwoman Alynda Lee Segarra - who settled in New Orleans after leaving her native Bronx at age 17 –reenergizing the rich musical forms of the American South in the age of Trayvon Martin and Wendy Davis.

Produced by Segarra and engineered by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes), Small Town Heroes features twelve new, original songs, all written or co-written by Segarra with support from a vivid cast of Crescent City musicians including her longtime right-hand-man on fiddle, Yosi Perlstein, keyboard player Casey McAllister and two members of the Deslondes: Sam Doores on guitar and Dan Cutler on bass.

NPR has said that Hurray for the Riff Raff "sweeps across eras and genres with grace and grit,” never more so than on Small Town Heroes. This impressive release follows Hurray for the Riff Raff’s self-released 2012 breakout album Look Out Mama, which led to a performance at the Newport Folk Festival and praise from Mojo, which compared Segarra to “a soulful, young Loretta Lynn,” and The New York Times, which hailed the group as "part of the loosely cohered movement of younger musicians embracing and reframing American roots music, giving it a polish of currency but otherwise leaving its bones intact." There's no doubt that this record won't stray too far from your cd player.

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