Setting The Woods On Fire is a studio album by The Walkabouts.[5]

Setting The Woods On Fire
Studio album by The Walkabouts
Released	1994
Recorded	by Ed Brooks at Ironwood Studios & Hanzek Audio, January/February 1994, mixed at Robert Lang Studios
Genre	Alternative rock, alt country, roots rock, heartland rock
Length	63:12
Label	Creative Man/Cargo[1]
Producer	Ed Brooks & the Walkabouts
The Walkabouts chronology
Satisfied Mind (1993) Setting The Woods On Fire (1994) Devil's Road (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Calgary Herald	B+[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

Critical reception

Jason Ankeny, for AllMusic, wrote: "A sweeping, stately record, it owes a great deal to the Stones' Exile on Main St."[2] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "a strong collection of original material."[4] Trouser Press called it "consistently ace," writing that "strong tunes like 'Firetrap', 'Good Luck Morning' and the rousing, horn-driven 'Hole in the Mountain' [are] given a spiky, full-bodied grace."[6] Uncut deemed it an "underselling classic" that "captures perfectly [the band's] haunted experimentalism."[7] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that the album's "disposition is pensive and vaguely ominous throughout."[8]

Track listing

All songs by the Walkabouts (c)1994, Fire & Skill Publishing (BMI), administrated worldwide by Bug Music Inc.

1. Good Luck Morning – 4:13
2. Firetrap – 5:39
3. Bordertown – 5:51
4. Feeling No Pain – 5:12
5. Old Crow – 4:26
6. Almost Wisdom – 4:45
7. Sand and Gravel – 6:34
8. Nightdrive – 5:38
9. Hole In The Mountain – 3:49
10. Pass Me On Over – 4:10
11. Up In The Graveyard – 6:12
12. Promised – 6:33

Performers

The Walkabouts

• Glenn Slater - piano, organ, accordion, loops
• Michael Wells - bass guitar, harmonica
• Terri Moeller - drums, percussion, backup vocals
• Carla Torgerson - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, cello
• Chris Eckman - vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, lyrics

Additional musicians

• Larry Barrett - mandolin (11,12), lap steel (4,5)
• Bruce Wirth - violin (7)
• Andrew Hare - pedal steel (12)

Tiny Hot Orchestra Horns

horn section on track 9

• Zach Permeson - trombone (9)
• Mark Condelaria - tenor sax (9)
• Marcus Membrane - trumpet (9)
• "Dutch Beef" Sout - tenor sax (9)

References