The Rural Alberta Advantage features folk-indie-rock that captures summer, small town heartache, beloved and embittered friends and family, blue collar hardships and life in Alberta. Hometown was self-released in the summer of ‘08 to glowing critical reviews but failed to catch-on outside of Canada until Saddle Creek signed the band and re-released the album in the U.S. Hometown features Paul Banwatt’s nasal vocals, fuzzy acoustic guitar, fervent drumming, and thoughtful lyrics about small town life.