After All These Years

Rami and the Reliables

Rami and the Reliables is the ongoing pet project of three fifths of the Flat Five (or half of NRBQ). Scott Ligon (NRBQ, Flat Five) Casey McDonough (NRBQ, Flat Five) Alex Hall (Flat Five, JD McPherson, Cactus Blossoms, Pokey LaFarge) and their muse Rami Gabriel, have recorded over fifty of Rami's songs in the past five years at Alex Hall's

Rami and the Reliables is the ongoing pet project of three fifths of the Flat Five (or half of NRBQ). Scott Ligon (NRBQ, Flat Five) Casey McDonough (NRBQ, Flat Five) Alex Hall (Flat Five, JD McPherson, Cactus Blossoms, Pokey LaFarge) and their muse Rami Gabriel, have recorded over fifty of Rami's songs in the past five years at Alex Hall's Reliable Recorders studio. Scott describes the sessions as "Our own little version of Second City: Rami sets the scene for us and then we go berserk!"

Recording three songs a day, the tracks presented in this collection are the 1st, 2nd or 3rd take in almost every case. The group insisted upon releasing the "rough mixes" that were sent home by engineer Alex Hall at the end of each day because, according Scott, "This is how records used to be made; a songwriter would bring a song or two into the studio, show them to a group of good musicians, and a few hours later he had a 45 under his arm that he lived with forever...whether he liked it or not!"

Originally from Beirut, Rami Gabriel is an accomplished Oud player and a published professor of psychology. Rami became friendly with Scott, Casey and Alex through the Chicago music scene and eventually enlisted the trio to help him flesh out the two or three dozen songs that he had ready to go.

After All These Years is a greatest hits collection that is also a debut album! Very little of this music has been officially released until this limited edition of 250 vinyl records. Scott- "We've just been doing it for our own enjoyment and hadn't really considered releasing anything until we realized that we'd recorded forty songs already! We thought we'd better put something out before we had a HUNDRED on our hands!" This record is for fans of NRBQ, The Flat Five, and good times.

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