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Backyard Tire Fire - Good to Be (new album / video)

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Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009

by Katharine Wray

Backyard Tire Fire
Good To Be
(Kelsey Street Records)
Releasing: 16 February 2010

Backyard Tire Fire release Good To Be next year on their own label, Kelsey Street Records. This album is full of optimistic rock and roll—with an emphasis on roll.

SONG LIST
01 Road Song #39
02 Ready or Not
03 Learning to Swim
04 Brady
05 Food for Thought
06 Estelle
07 Hell & Back
08 Good to be
09 A Thousand Gigs Ago
10 Piss & Moan
11 Once Upon a Time

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