The Best Local Records Of 2008
By Patrick Ferrucci, Register Entertainment Editor
- “New Hard Times,” The Rabble Rousers — We weren’t here when Bill Collins first relocated from the West Coast and began making punk-inspired rockabilly in New Haven, but we certainly remember the late, great Swaggerts. And let’s just say that “New Hard Times,” a collection of electric folk songs, punky tunes that Billy Bragg would have liked to have written, is right on the money.