The Boondock Saints
Release the Hounds
Listen to Release the Hounds at The Boondock Saints' Official Site
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Listen to Release the Hounds at The Boondock Saints' Official Site
Sounds like a movie title, right? Well you are correct! The Boondock Saints' co-founder, Troy Duffy was writer and director of the Blockbuster direct-to-video movie, The Boondock Saints (starring William Dafoe, Billy Conelly, Sean Patrick Flannery, Norem Reedus, and David Della Rocco). This group personifies what I like to see-Baby Boomers aging without fear. The Boondock Saints are continuing to create the rock of their youth, and they can make it big if they continue on this track.
The songs on this CD brought me back to the 80s when my father would take me, my sister and cousins 
with him to Long Island to play Softball with his brothers. The Boondock Saint's sound is like that of late 70s-80s rock. It reminds me of Metallica, just not as hard. The Boondock Saints is definitely late Baby Boomer type rock. This is what I would expect to see on VH1 or on an adult contemporary station.
While I personally would not buy a CD like this, there are many that would. Again Baby Boomers of the later 50s and early 60s would definitely be into this kind of music. And I strongly encourage the band not to get caught up in the mass-market scene, because they rely too much on the fickleness of youth (like myself) to sell albums.
Hit the Baby Boomer market. Stations like 95.5 WPLJ here in New York are the types of stations you should be targeting for airplay. I do not know why there are no adult contemporary rock stations? There are many bands that still have managed to maintain that classic rock sound and deserve some airplay.