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Since 2003's release of Hi, Everything's Great. Limbeck have built a foundation of Big Star and Tom Petty-inflected power pop that has evolved into their own take on classic rock - a hat tip to the Southern California sound of the early 70s combined with loose, laid back and rollicking blasts of Gram Parsons, the Beach Boys, the Faces, the Stones and, most of all, the Replacements. In January 2005, Limbeck lit out for Minneapolis - home of the greatest bar-rocking, country kicking, garage punk pop folk band of all time - the Replacements. Let Me Come Home was recorded at Ed Ackerson's Flowers Studio in Minneapolis with Ed and the Jayhawks' Gary Louris producing the album. Though the record is inflected with country rock - the twang of "People Don't Change," the shambling guitars of "Everyone's In the Parking Lot" - Patrick says, "I know Gary wasn't out to make us the next Jayhawks or anything." Instead Ed and Gary had the band record live, and do overdubs later, to capture the boundless energy that fans know from the Limbeck live show. The result is the band's best work yet, a powerful and fierce collection of good-feeling, unstoppable rock and roll. Let Me Come Home is the culmination of all of their previous songwriting - a gritty, mid-tempo bunch of rock tunes that levels Limbeck's contemporaries with momentum, fury and humor. And what Limbeck have discovered with Let Me Come Home is that home is where you find it. Limbeck have fashioned themselves as the Kerouac of rock and roll, inheriting the hard work ethic of our best touring bands: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Fugazi. Anyhow rock and roll is about dust and grit and gasoline, and the people you meet along the way, and maybe that's why Limbeck's songs seem like a hello from someplace else, a postcard from an old friend.

Tracks

1. People Don't Change
2. Long Way To Go
3. Everyone's In The Parking Lot
4. Making The Rounds
5. Sin City
6. Usually Deluded
7. Names For Dogs
8. Watchin' The Moon Rise Over Town
9. Home
10. Television
11. To Hell With Having Fun
12. I Saw You Laughing
13. 91 Honda