Snake in the Radio


Snake in the Radio is the first album by Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands. It was released in 2006 by Bloodshot Records.

Production

The album was recorded between September 2004 and November 2005.

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote: "Pickerel's voice has the shaky intensity of an unholy combination of Roy Orbison and Chris Isaak, while the ramshackle production, overseen by grunge legend Steve Fisk, provides an appropriately unsettling musical backdrop." The Riverfront Times wrote that "if you need a soundtrack for savoring that late-night, as-yet-indefinite pensive mood, this is just the thing." PopMatters wrote: "Call it maturity, wanderlust, the need to maintain artistic relevance, or the realization that much of grunge was roots rock with more guitar distortion, but this Americana-by-way-of-Seattle storyline has been an enjoyable development." Seattle Weekly wrote the songs "could be the soundtrack to a David Lynch flick set in a Bakersfield honky tonk."

Track listing

  1. "Forest Fire"
  2. "Come Home Blues"
  3. "A Town Too Fast for Your Blues"
  4. "I'll Wait"
  5. "Graffiti Girl"
  6. "Ask the Wind, Ask the Dusk"
  7. "Don't Look Back"
  8. "You'll Be Mine"
  9. "Sin Tax Dance"
  10. "Snake in the Radio"
  11. "Town Without the Blues"

Personnel