The Year We Tried To Kill The Pain

by Bob Woodruff

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1.	I Didn't Know 04:45	info	buy track
2.	I'm The Train 03:37	info	buy track
3.	The Year We Tried To Kill The Pain 05:14	info	buy track
4.	There's Something There 04:20	info	buy track
5.	Bayou Girl 04:27	info	buy track
6.	I'm Losing You 03:50	info	buy track
7.	What Is Heaven 03:57	info	buy track
8.	So Many Teardrops 04:13	info	buy track
9.	Stand In The Way 04:19	info	buy track
10.	Paint The Town Blue 05:08	info	buy track
11.	The Sweetest Mystery (Demo) 03:27	info	buy track
12.	If I Was Your Man (Live In Sweden) 04:11	info	buy track

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The Year We Tried To Kill The Pain on CD contains one
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This is music that is bigger than it needs to be. It’s music for the world. Hell, slap it in a satellite, press PLAY and send it out to the universe. It’s music that deserves, no NEEDS, to be heard. Back in the day, it might be the oft-played album that leans close to the turntable or the cassette that never leaves the car. Classic Woodruff staple, The Year We Tried To Kill The Pain sets a tone of white hot love inexorably turning to embers. The kind of drama we might’ve all gone through in our reckless youth: "I'm gonna take this burning heart and stick it in the ground/put me out your misery where I almost drowned". Yet Woodruff has a way of summoning back the ‘fire’ as well as the hurt. The gentle, 60’s soul-flavored, "There’s Something There", evokes the first thrilling and giddy drop of falling in love with a warm, sunny AM radio glint. "Paint The Town Blue" is a sing-along anthem deserving of a stadium-sized throng swaying to-&-fro, arm-in-arm, with lighters aloft. And for a most special treat, be sure to visit live album-closer, "If I Was Your Man". The final encore from a recent concert in Sweden beginning with Bob solo on acoustic guitar as members of his band cut short their celebratory smokes backstage to spontaneously accompany him unrehearsed one by one in this simple offering written just days prior to the show and not a part of the set list. A longing openhearted offer of love to one who it's unclear will accept or deny it. The kind of plea Otis Redding would rip to shreds. The Scandinavian audience in attendance is left slack-jawed, as is the listener on the closing of this brilliant new release from Bob Woodruff. Singer. Songwriter. World Citizen.

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released March 3, 2016

On Steel Derrick Music
Recorded in Örebro, Sweden at Studio Rymdklang.
Produced by Fredrik Landh, Clas Olofsson & Bob Woodruff.
Engineered by Fredrik Landh & Clas Olofsson.
Mixed & mastered by Fredrik Landh at Studio Rymdklang.
“The Sweetest Mystery” and additional mastering for U.S. edition
by Brad Vance at Red Mastering, Newbury Park, CA.

Bob Woodruff - Vocals, Acoustic Guitars
Fredrik Landh - Drums, Bass, Vocals, Piano on tracks 5, 8 and 12
and Acoustic Guitar on track 7
Clas Olofsson - Electric Guitars, Pedal Steel, Banjo and Organ
Mathias Lilja - Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Vocals
Heidi James - Vocals
Benmont Tench - Piano and Organ
Rich McCulley - Slide Guitars on track 10

“Stand In The Way”
Bob Woodruff - Vocals, Acoustic Guitars,
Drums, Percussion
Rich McCulley - Slide Guitars, Bass
Heidi James - Vocals
Benmont Tench - Piano
Anna Maria Rosales - Additional Vocals

“Stand In The Way” and additional overdubs
recorded and produced by Rich McCulley & Bob Woodruff at Red Hill Recording, North Hollywood, CA.

“The Sweetest Mystery” (demo recording)
by Bob Woodruff & Rich McCulley
Engineered by Rich McCulley
Bob Woodruff - Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, Drums
Rich McCulley - Guitars and Bass
Carl Byron - Piano and Accordion
Nelson Bragg - Harmony Vocal

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Bob Woodruff Los Angeles, California

Bob Woodruff.
Singer.
Acclaimed
Songwriter.
All-American.
His friends call him ‘Woody’. And much like another Woody of note, his songs are anachronistic yet accessible, melodic yet gritty, intimate yet universal. A mid-90’s country-rock success with critically-acclaimed releases, Woodruff played the rock star card and played it hard and has now returned with a stunning comeback album. ... more

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