Rickety Stairs
Track Listings
| 1. Driving To Georgia | ||
| 2. In a Crowd | ||
| 3. Slipping Through the Cracks | ||
| 4. Dandelion Seeds | ||
| 5. Matter of Fact | ||
| 6. Cottonwood Tree | ||
| 7. Standing in the Station | ||
| 8. On This Night | ||
| 9. Pieces of Man | ||
| 10. Untied Shoes | ||
| 11. Greater than the Gold | ||
| 12. The List |
Editorial Reviews
Option Magazine
"In an ideal world (Hoekstra would be)heralded the next Dylan or Springsteen."
Tower Pulse
“ **** spare, vivid narratives delivered with quiet confidence and holistic musicality, one of the year's nicest singer/songwriter surprises.”
Album Description
Doug Hoekstra’s second album, RICKETY STAIRS, was released in 1996 and earned him a NASHVILLE MUSIC AWARD nomination for Best Folk Album of the Year. The record was cut in Chicago and Nashville and the finished product represented a creative leap forward for Hoekstra, as he embellished his lyrical narratives and heretofore skeletal arrangements with strings, French horns, gospel singers, and other inventive musical touches. Highlights include the moody intro of "Driving to Georgia" ("what it is, is what it ain't, I don't think anyone was born that great," the song goes), "Dandelion Seeds" a ferocious rocker featuring the Monk-like piano of Jeff Kowalkowski, the Band-inspired "Slipping through the Cracks," and "Cottonwood Tree," a ballad of a Native American paratrooper trying to balance duty of work with the ways of his heritage. This tune was inspired by the New Mexico landscape paintings of Maynard Dixon and the writings of Tony Hillerman
Rickety Stairs
Rickety Stairs, Music, Doug Hoekstra, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
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