Hurray for the Riff Raff, the rail-riding teen poet who lived to sing the tale

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Singer/songwriter Alynda Segarra is perhaps uniquely qualified to make music under the banner "Americana." Segarra records as Hurray for the Riff Raff, and they spent time as a teenager hitchhiking and riding the rails across the United States, sometimes evading police. In the song "Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)," they describe camping on a toxic cleanup site, and also singing for fellow vagrants: