Small Town HeroesHurray for the Riff Raff · 2014

pitchfork

7.8

“Folk outfit Hurray for the Riff Raff's Small Town Heroes borrows liberally from old-time traditions, including Appalachian reels, Big Easy R&B, and Piedmont blues. Yet these songs put a fresh and wily spin on old sounds and ideas, thanks to the formidable presence of singer/songwriter Alynda Lee Segarra.”

rollingstone

7.0

“It’s been a decade of reinvention for Hurray for the Riff Raff, the recording moniker of singer-songwriter Alynda Segarra. After years of street-busking and self-releasing acoustic records, Segarra cemented their status as an old-timey roots standard-bearer on 2014 Small Town Heroes. But over the course of their past two albums–2017’s The Navigator and 2021’s Life On Earth–Segarra chipped away at ”