Rough Terrain: all of the Rough Terrain songs

All of the Rough Terrain songs that the band ever performed live have been made into a compilation and published at SoundCloud. We have also made a new page for the complete catalogue of Rough Terrain songs among their pages here at the Wud Records website.

None of the Rough Terrain songs in this new compilation are actually performed by Rough Terrain. Instead, nearly all of them are demos from the Band of Georges. George was the main writer of original material for the band.

Rough Terrain also performed a handful of covers during their odyssey. We’ve managed to track down versions of those covers and we have added them to the compilation as well. Covered artists include Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, Mountain, Pink Floyd, Steppenwolf, and Ram Jam.

There is very little evidence remaining of any of Rough Terrain’s music. We believe the band’s redoubtable bass player Jerry may have an old VHS video, but it seems unlikely that this will ever be digitised.

Despite playing countless live shows, Rough Terrain never recorded any of their performances as far as we can tell, not even in rehearsals. Most of the other legacy bands on our label frequently had a cassette machine recording the sounds in the room, but strangely, not Rough Terrain. This is clearly a great shame. A lot of that music is simply lost forever by now.

Now that all of the Band of Georges material has been released, we decided to pay a tribute to Rough Terrain by making this new compilation.

We were surprised that there were only 24 Rough Terrain songs, including their covers. The band performed live many, many times and this feels like not enough songs for their total repertoire. Perhaps there were more, and perhaps there were not.

We do have two studio recordings of Rough Terrain. Their Howell Road Demo and their Daylight Demo are both here at the Wud Records website. We also made a compilation of both demos, called Exit Stage Deaf. This is available for download and streaming from Bandcamp, and clicking here will take you straight to Rough Terrain’s Exit Stage Deaf.

If you would like to listen to the complete repertoire of all the Rough Terrain songs here at the Wud Records website, you can do so by clicking here.

If you prefer to listen to the compilation over at SoundCloud instead, please click here.

One of the Rough Terrain songs, Coping with the Runs in Mexico Blues, featured Mad Blind Screaming Blue Stu as a guest harmonica player.