TOUGH LOVE by HAMELL ON TRIAL

This was my first official release on Righteous Babe Records. I think there was talk that they were going to release a live album, and Ani had them record all of my shows that I did with her but then I got in a car accident and gave me the tapes to release myself. that was very generous of them, they knew I wasn't able to earn any income. When the dust cleared and I was, again, back on the road, and Ani had let her, (large) band go....we were touring together and she offered me a contract with her label. Needless to say I was thrilled.

I did some recording with her in New Orleans, as always I was recording just about every night in a little project studio I had in my basement and I even got the money together to go to England and have John Leckie produce some tracks. Big Stuff!

I still do a lot of songs off the album live, as a matter of fact I have been opening the last couple of years with" A Little Concerned That's All..." Check out the individual tracks for lyrics and thoughts about the songs! Enjoy!

"...with an explosive strumming style and well-defined sense of the absurd." -- The London Times, June 11, 2003

"No folk-punk or antifolkie plays harder or louder....Hamell hasn't lost his knack for describing true crime and evoking existential outrage." -- Blender, September 2003

Genius is a rare commodity - but here it is in the one-man folk-punk band called Hamell On Trial. -- New York Post, August 26, 2003

If talent, creativity and artistic integrity still count for anything, this is one of 2003's best albums. -- Rollingstone.com, August 26, 2003

Nothing [...] prepares us for just how compelling, how satisfying, how fist-stirring and soul-leaping is [Ed Hamell's] fifth album. -- The Austin American-Statesman, August 26, 2003

Tracklist

1.	DON'T KILL	3:27

2.	HALFWAY	3:21

3.	WHEN DESTINY CALLS	3:53

4.	HAIL	2:48

5.	95 SOUTH	3:00

6.	DOWNS	2:31

7.	ALL THAT WAS SAID	2:47

8.	A LITTLE CONCERNED THATS ALL...	2:51

9.	EVERYTHING AND NOTHING	3:16

10.	TOUGH LOVE	2:51

11.	DEAR PETE	1:32

12.	THERE IS A GOD	2:51

13.	FIRST DATE	3:21

14.	WORRY WART	1:59

15.	OUGHTA GO AROUND	3:16

16.	DETROIT LULLABY	1:14

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released October 7, 2013

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