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Mar 31, 2014Small Town Heroes may mourn victims of violence but it is emphatically a record stuffed with good times.
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UncutApr 2, 2014Small Town Heroes is the band's fifth and best album. [May 2014, p.68]
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Mar 12, 2014At times on Small Town Heroes, Segarra echoes them [Karen Dalton, Lucinda Williams, or Gillian Welch] precisely, taking what they do best and making it her own. That's a rung many have reached for but most have never grasped.
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Jun 26, 2014While much of contemporary folk lacks the political bite of Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger, Segarra, who identifies as queer and listened to Bikini Kill growing up, brings a progressive and empathetic mindset.
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Q MagazineMay 20, 2014The country-folk roots are earthly present, but old-time tropes are given contemporary settings. [Jun 2014, p.112]
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Apr 17, 2014While this is Hurray For The Riff Raff’s strongest record to date, it’s doubtful this is a peak. Keep Segarra on your radar.
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Feb 14, 2014These 12 tracks encompass a broad swath of a timeless America, like old Carter Family tunes existing in the peaks and troughs of AM radio waves rolling endlessly over the miles.
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Feb 14, 2014Its singer has found a home and sense of being for her voice--a voice capable and deserving of a population larger than the album’s title.
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Feb 18, 2014With Small Town Heroes, Segarra proves herself one of the most compelling stylists in a folk revival full of suspicious acts either too beholden to tradition or too uncritical to make much of it.
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Mar 26, 2014Small Town Heroes holds enough versatility and charm to captivate even the most jaded soul; songs that will wend their way into your consciousness and stay with you long after the album is done.
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Feb 18, 2014The album adds up to a scrapbook of wandering and loss, drawing what consolations it can from music.
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Feb 14, 2014Her folk-roots music feels both ancient and modern.
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Feb 14, 2014Throughout it all Segarra struts her stuff without the slightest bit of arrogance (most of the arrangements are spare, but never willfully so), offering up a confident, yet ultimately amiable set of millennial-informed, urban crafted, Woody Guthrie-inspired, contemporary hobo-folk anthems that play fast and loose with genre tropes without losing the essence that makes them universal.