Yesterday's Ring

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Yesterday’s Ring was started in 2000 on a hot summer day on the front porch of a punk house in Memphis, TN. Fred Jacques (guitar and vocals) and Hugo Mudie (vocals) were on tour with their band, The Sainte Catherines. Fueled by whiskey and beer, they decided to start writing folk/country songs influenced by a mix of Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash and “punk heroes” like Tim Armstrong of Rancid, Joe Strummer of The Clash and Shane Macgowan of The Pogues. “We were just tired of playing loud and fast songs” Hugo says. “We were listening to a lot of country in the van and we wanted to do something like that, but growing up in the punk scene, it came out really dirty, rough, and punk...” The duo got back from tour and played shows around their hometown, before releasing a much-acclaimed EP on local imprint, Dare To Care Records. In 2003, they released the bilingual acoustic folk-punk Onze chansons pour faire pleurer les morts-vivants, still on Dare To Care, adding to their line-up Louis Valiquette (guitar and vocals) and Marc-André Beaudet (bass and vocals) of The Sainte Catherines. After a cross-Canada tour, some East Coast US dates and some European shows, they released in 2005, El Rancho, which really established them as one of the top alt-country band to ever come out of the Province of Québec. Mixing their old love of the punk-rock energy with their new dedication to the country and folk tradition, the band really founded a new sound that they were more comfortable wit

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El Rancho

Diamonds in the Ditch

Back from El Rancho

Onze Chansons Pour Faire Pleuer Les Morts-Vivants

Goodbye Nightlife

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Onze Chansons Pour Faire Pleurer Les Morts-Vivants

11 chansons pour faire pleurer les morts

Suburbanhome Records Spring '09 Sampler

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Onze Chanson Pour Faire Pleurer les Morts Vivants

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Chasers

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Protect 2: A Benefit for the National Association to Protect Children

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Always A Little Bit Sad + Money & Guitars

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