Strugglers Discography of CDs

Strugglers music CDs The Latest Rights the fourth full-length by the Strugglers features violinist Daniel Hart (John Vanderslice St. Vincent) multi-instrumentalist Alex Lazara (The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers) & a host of other accomplished North Carolina musicians. The Latest Rights glides through its nine deftly crafted tracks with a calm confidence. Bickford tosses off sly line-breaks equates youth’s freedoms with adulthood’s burdens & addresses love sex & death all with the ...

Strugglers discography The name The Strugglers signifies music made by singular American singer Brice Randall Bickford. Reared in southern Virginia Bickford began performing as The Strugglers shortly after moving to New York City. He self-released his first album Done by The Strugglers in 2001 & received much praise from those who heard the sparsely distributed 4-track recording. In 2003 after a move back to the south & a month-long tour of the eastern U.S. Tract Records issued The Strugglers’ second

Strugglers songs You Win recalls the down-tempo confessionals of (Smog) or Red House Painters -- folk-based rock with gently swelling crescendos that raise the songs just enough above room temperature to be memorable. Singer/songwriter Brice Randall Bickford II's timeworn warble is a natural fit for the lyrical themes of resignation and acceptance, but it's the contrast with the arrangements -- highlighted by Chris Eubank's cello and Megan Hughes' violin -- that makes the best songs stand out. Bickford conjures lonely road blues on "The Cascade Range" while Bickford's and Neil Allen's guitars trade lines with cello and violin over a driving beat; "I Tried to Repair" balances elegiac piano runs with the plaintive harmonies of Bickford and Heather McEntire; the languorous, Hammond-driven tempo of "Being Shown Blues" culminates in a gorgeous banjo-and-strings outro. Three of the nine songs clock in over six minutes, while three more near that mark, suggesting that an edit or two probably wouldn't have diminished the final product. But with its melancholic sound and themes, the Strugglers' third record works well as a companion piece of the Painters' Old Ramon or D. Braxton Harris' forgotten gem Deep Dark Black. Like the dusky painting that adorns its cover, You Win's music evokes the solemn shades of something that's run its course, leaving in its stead bittersweet remembrances and the hope of a new day's redemption. ~ John Schacht The Strugglers consist of songwriter Brice Randall Bickford II and a rotating cast of musicians who make their home in Carrboro, NC. Their third full-length, You Win, weaves themes of success, failure and anti-climax in its examination of the psychology of desire. Committed to tape by veteran engineer Jerry Kee (Superchunk, Polvo, and The Mendoza Line), You Win will be released by celebrated European record label Acuarela Discos. The Strugglers have shared the stage with such bands as ...

Strugglers CD discography Track Listing of songs: Darktown Strutter's Ball; Beer Barrel Polka; You're My Sunshine; Ain't She Sweet; It's A Sin To Tell A Lie; Side By Side; If You Knew Susie; Bonnie Lassie; For Me And My Gal; Music, Music, Music; By The Light Of The Silvery Moon; Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart; Wearing Of The Green; I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town; Show Me The Way To Go Home;