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One part stage show, one part musical performance, Amanda Richards and her undead band put on an incredible show featuring old-school country songs from the album Play Dead, winner of the 2011 Independent Music Award for Best Concept Album, about the zombie apocalypse written from the perspective of the soon-to-be last person on Earth who happens to be a country singer and a feminist.

Notable performances include: Aladdin Theater- Portland, OR (600 in attendance), Alberta Rose Theater- Portland, OR (300 in attendance), Mississippi Studios- (150 in attendance), Haight Ashbury Street Fair -San Francisco, CA (20,000 in attendance), and many smaller capacity venues throughout the Pacific NW.

Folks have said we sound like: Lucinda Williams, Calexico, Patti Smith, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Velvet Underground, Mazzy Star, Angel Olsen and Bonnie Raitt.

Songwriting influences include: The Magnetic Fields, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Harry Nilsson, The Kinks, Woody Guthrie and many of the Old Country Masters such as: Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline and The Sons of the Pioneers

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"[DOOM’S DAY ROCKABILLY] If Sam Raimi and Bonnie Raitt had a baby, it might turn out an awful lot like Amanda Richards. The Portland singer-songwriter has a knack for twang, so much so that she’s flexing two Grammy nominations for Best Country Song. Her 2010 record, Play Dead, is a post-apocalyptic-themed story, rich with zombies, doom and her standard folky songwriting. Richards sings from a make-believe pulpit, with veins pulsing and fret fingers swollen. If Halloween were a band, it’d be Amanda Richards and company."
-The Willamette Week

"People, we are fucked. The dead have risen, hungry for brains (or flesh, or meaty ribs, or whatever it is zombies actually eat), and this time around hiding in a mall with a sawed-off ain't going to help things. That's the bad news. The good news is that local country crooner Amanda Richards has scored a soundtrack for the undead's flesh-chomping insurrection. Play Dead just might be the first zombie-themed country album (unless Merle Haggard has actually been dead all these years, which when you think about it is quite possible), told from the point of humanity's final survivor (Richards herself). Stripped bare of unnecessary rock opera flair, Play Dead is both sweet and enduring, despite Richards' bloody lyrical content. The end of days never sounded so great."
EAC-The Portland Mercury

Play Dead

Amanda Richards

Winner of the 2012 Independent Music Awards for Best Concept Album, Play Dead is a collection of old-school sounding country songs about the Zombie Apocalypse written from the perspective of the soon-to-be-last person on Earth who happens to be a country singer and a feminist.

1 Intro 00:57 Free

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2 Quarantine 01:49
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3 Don't Leave Your Woman (When There's Walking Dead) 04:24
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4 Is That Lipstick? 02:23
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5 Undead in my Bed 02:42
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6 Zombie Baby 03:57
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7 Play Dead 02:09
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8 No Fear No Pain 03:12
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9 Walking Among the Dead 03:07
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10 Feast of Flesh 00:28
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11 Zombyodel 02:03
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12 Rest in Pieces 02:38
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13 Alone at Last 02:21
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14 Hush Little Baby 01:34
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15 Outro 01:34
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