Introducing a brand new CD of 8 tracks recorded at Green Room Studios in Hobart during 2016. Featuring a full band sound layered onto guitar with foot drums the album is upbeat, reflective, topical questioning and exuberant in its themes. Fitting into a rootsy a punk folk blues skank idiom the tones on resonator guitar, banjo , double bass, horns and musical saw. With warm all live band sound honed from a longer Saturday night residency at the Whaler bar on Salamanca Wharf in Hobart, the songs are road tested with sweat celebration, irony and purpose. Dancy , rocky, bluesy,poppy with a dash of instrumental finess and spoken word. The Ruben Reeves band album is a fusion of roots styles of quality songwriting and enthusiastic social commentary. Once you listen a song will stay with you and help Ruben grow up big and strange.

08 Selling Used Fantasies

07 Grinder

06 Trouble And Joy Pt1.

05 Sin

04 E N D W O R L D

03 No Shoes To Party

02 Mothers Fury

01 No Rent

take the telephone down the ally way long distance can you hear
clouds are down and rumour is rife you’re coming through quite clear.
Theres refugees and market bands gladiators all in a row.
the foods no good talks getting cheap and there’s some other place i gotta go.

pull a stone out of the great pyramid and sail it on down the nile.
take all the dead people that ever done wrong and stand them all on trial.
you can meditate until it gets to late tryna find the ultimate state.
But look out for the dog his tails getting hot he’ll jump right over the gate.

(chorus)
Look out whats coming, gonna take everybody down.
some things are getting better everybody’s getting scared gonna rearrange this town.
Theres no grim reaper no midnight creeper no satin edged uncle sam.
That Can’t do for us what can’t be done. what you need is a master plan.

(Verse 2)
take all the things you never believed in and throw them in a garbage can.
chuck in all your life saving too and invite your freinds over for dinner. Ha.
Maybe everything just keeps going around nothings ever gonna change.
I’ll meet you on the corner at ten tonight by the heart and soul exchange.

We can go down to the opera house where the rats have stolen the show.
everyones being turned away at the door but there’s no other place to go.
the animals have taken over the zoo and there letting no people out.
and the sacred angel of purity and holiness she’s walking down the cross you can hear her shout.

(chorus)
Look out whats coming gonna take everybody down.
some things are getting better everybody’s getting scared gonna rearrange this town.
Theres no grim reaper no midnight creeper no satin edged uncle sam.
Can’t do for us what can’t be done what you need is a master plan.

Master Plan

Ruben Reeves is a one man band with a backing band with energetic peace songs for the apocalypse and a raw poetic styling. Witch flavours of Ash grunwald, Jeff lang and the Violent femmes if you like summer festivals your sure to love this.

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