After All These Years

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“After All These Years is noteworthy for its ability to create a mournful atmosphere perfect for tales of lost friends and heartache.�
Uptown Magazine, June 2005


“After All These Years deals with age old topics like love, loss, life and death however the brother's vocal harmonies and the bands' pretty acoustic melodies mixed with flourishes of keyboards and slide guitar make for a captivating and unique sound.�
Country Music News, November 2003


“After All These Years has come here to represent - the Everyman and Woman! Doctor, lawyer, beggar man, thief, every one has parallel dreams, regrets, friends and family, with stories to share. After All These Years stirs up those stories and emotions by wearing their hearts on their sleeves like a badge of honor. Much like Springsteen, Cash, Mellancamp, and Stompin Tom Connors, who transcend musical genres and prejudices, lyricist Todd Lesage has the ability to capture those very feelings and experiences that know no social or economic bound. Hectors Place is country music in it's truest form, of the people, for the people, riff-laden, toe tapping rhythm with honest harmony and hum able melodies. It plays like a friendly conversation over a few beers.�
Bruce Tulloch, Stylus magazine, October 2005

There are two kinds of country music. You have Toby Keith, and then you have real country. Well thank Hank that After All These Years plays the latter. Album kicker Last Train to Memphis is hotter than a branded butt, so you might want to let it cool on the windowsill before listening. With lines such as "spent most of my money on Johnnie Walker and Jim Beam," this tune is more country than a frozen horseshit hockey puck. Small Town Ways is a slightly cheesy but still satisfying bit of rock/country balladry. Imagine Lynyrd Skynyrd covering Skid Row's I Remember You. Hillbilly Heartache starts off by saying it's by a sheep-fancying dead dude named Pedalin' Joe, and turns into a fast foot-stomper about cops and grow-ops. Last on this EP is The Smallest Things, a slow, sombre song, good for shedding tears while you're shining your spurs. If these four tunes bake your biscuits, good news - word on the trail is a new full-length is due fairly soon
— Jared Story
November, 2007


Sounds a bit like The Marshall Tucker Band meets Blue Rodeo.
....not too bad.
- Daryl Faulkner at Nettwerk Music
- In response to single release “Long Road�


I love it. It's sloppy and cool and would easily fit into my record collection. I also can't pick hits, but I think it's terrific and a great vocal.
Joel Stewart, Murder Inc.
In response to single release “Long Road�


Yeeehaww! Fork the shit outta the barn, Billy Bob, we gonna have us a pardy. This here After All Doze Beers band plays sum mighty fine two-steppin', two-hittin', two-four-drinkin' music. Pop it in the player Billy Bob an see fer yerself. That ther Put That Bottle Down song reminds me a bit of that hurtin' Albertan, waz his name Billy Bob? Ah, don't matter. Hillbilly Heartache, that's anutter gooder. Play that ther Last Night one more time. Whoo-wee! That ther Jaxon Haldane feller can pluck a banjo almost as good as he can a chicken. Put yer good britches on, Billy Bob. I reckon we'll header to town and find us some likker, cuz I feel like dancin'.
— Jared Story
August, 2008


AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Kickin’ Up Dirt
Independent - LOCAL

This local country band’s fourth full-length album is a hit! So, if you’re a country bumpkin, get ready to hike up your jeans and shout YEEHAW! This little band from the prairies will have you tappin’ your cowboy boots like there is no tomorrow. After All These Years’ overall sound is reminiscent of Blue Rodeo, but grittier. This album provides great musical variety, from slow, woeful ballads to rip-roarin’ barn dance tunes expressing the ups and downs of country life. Sure, the vocals could stand to be a little less flat and a little more melodic, but the steady strum of the guitar and the intricate twang of the banjo more than compensate for them. I’ll bet a bottle of whiskey and two tractor rides that these 11 tracks will satisfy the down-home hick in you.
—Courtney Schwegel, 4/5










- Todd Lesage