“You can’t tell a book by looking at its cover,” as Bo Diddley so memorably reminded us. And that cliché applies to the art adorning Americana/blues rocker Randy Lee Riviere’s Farmland Blues.
What appears on the outside like a comfy folk album due to the tranquil painting of a farmhand carrying a sack and a few horses in a field, doesn’t prepare you for the raw, frequently riveting, guitar-based rocking dominating the generous 15 track, hour-long disc.
The singer/songwriter splits time between two professions and locales. He has residences in Montana where he’s a wildlife biologist (some songs reference environmental issues) and Nashville for when he’s in singer/songwriting mode. Also essential to Riviere’s success…

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