Riley Downing - Landfill Poetry [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: OBR095CD
Barcode: 0608870757729
Release Date: 28 Aug 2026
Genre: Folk

For years, singer-songwriter Riley Downing has collected stories about life’s overlooked moments and underappreciated people. He’s unearthed these tales of castaway truths and once-faded recollections for Landfill Poetry, a sophomore solo album and Oh Boy Records debut.??A native of small-town Missouri who once worked as a backroad trashman before becoming one of music’s weathered journeymen, the husky-voiced Downing may be best known as a member of noisemaking Americana outfit The Deslondes, a New Orleans-born band that he co-founded after a clandestine meeting with likeminded musicians at a folk festival in Oklahoma.??On Landfill Poetry, his six-string worldbuilding takes listeners to the back of the trash truck (“Landfill Poetry”), inside the lonely hours of the graveyard paycheck (“Night Shift”) and to the quiet moments after a hard day of work (“Porch Song”). He sings for the restless ones who stay up way too late (“Hay Hay Hay”) and the grandchildren who admire a hard-working compassion once shared between late loved ones (“Helen & Gene”). With each song, Downing uncovers sketches of life that once might’ve been lost to the landfill but instead?are shared anew.

TRACKLISTING
1.Landfill Poetry
2.Chance
3.Country Fool
4.Hurt to Fall
5.The Key
6.Helen & Gene
7.Nightshift
8.Hay Hay Hay
9.Like I Always Was
10.Polecat Holler
11.Porch Song
12.Last Day of Mardi Gras