- Record Label: Thirty Tigers
- Release Date: Jan 21, 2014
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Q MagazineMar 18, 2014Snider and friends bring the party to songs not necessarily associated with wild abandon, but it's the perfect soundtrack for your next keg party. [Apr 2014, p.110]
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UncutFeb 13, 2014The material forms a coherent, hard-hitting song cycle about blue-collar hard times. [Feb 2014, p.76]
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Feb 13, 2014While the band clearly has an advantage, being able to handpick songs that were already pretty stellar to begin with, credit is due to the hard Working Americans for not simply churning out carbon copies, but slathering plenty of loose blues, jam band raucousness and stoner charm, to make these songs their own.
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Feb 13, 2014[Todd Snider] convenes a tough, versatile band for a set of rootsy, lefty covers like the Bottle Rockets' "Welfare Music" and Frankie Miller's desperate 1959 hit "Blackland Farmer," which is redone with taut New Orleans swing.
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Feb 13, 2014Hard Working Americans picked 11 cover tunes which deal with the hard truths of life among the working class, some recent compositions, and other, older songs that have remained relevant with the passage of time.
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Feb 13, 2014As a debut for five musicians who are busy with their own careers, let’s hope there is a follow-up sooner rather than later.